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Dark pattern banners I call them. One day I clicked the 'more options' button on a foreign website and it was a list of over 1000 different third parties listed
by aliqot 4y ago
Dark pattern banners I call them. One day I clicked the 'more options' button on a foreign website and it was a list of over 1000 different third parties listed each with their own toggle.
- arbitrage 4y agobroken as designed.
- parker_mountain 4y agoUse Firefox's built in privacy blocking tools as a bare minimum. Personally, I use uBlock, the built in privacy list, and most crucially: Cookie AutoDelete. I have it set such that if I unload a domain for 30 minutes, all of its cookies are deleted. The end result is that I have something that works decently, while preserving history and passwords.
- agilob 4y agoThat's actually how it's supposed to work. Only the most recent ruling, and it was Google specific, forced them to add "Reject all" button.
- ender341341 4y agoafaik the law says rejecting all should be as easy as accepting all, which is google got the ruling they did, even having to click "more options" before "reject all" is against the letter of the law, though I don't know that that one will ever actually be enforced.
- agilob 4y agoafaik technicalities like this can be adjusted by member states and it's country specific. EU court overruled Google case for whole EU.