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Eater is making an interesting choice with its cookie policy. It doesn't matter if you click Accept (the only option!) or not, it will still load the TikTok vid
by skilled 4y ago
Eater is making an interesting choice with its cookie policy. It doesn't matter if you click Accept (the only option!) or not, it will still load the TikTok video, a platform that's well-known for its notorious tracking.
"By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies."
Is Eater able to make an exception for TikTok in this context? At least for the news sites that I consume, they will typically overlay TikTok/Facebook/Instagram content with a form that asks you to reveal the said content in exchange for that platform getting data on you.
Here it looks like Eater just doesn't care at all.
Sorry for being so off-topic, but I just couldn't help to notice it.
- nerdponx 4y agoOf course they don't care. What makes you think they would care?
- wpm 4y agoI'll never understand the utility of autoplaying videos, especially ones that are barely related or more often completely unrelated (looking at you local and national news websites). Like, is this supposed to just annoy me? Is that annoyance going to make it more likely I'm going to stay on the site, which I'm blocking all the ads on anyways? It's just absolute cancer.
- solarkraft 4y agoGaming engagement metrics, probably
- throwaway47291 4y agoMaybe this is controversial and not what the GDPR says but IMO, it's up to tiktok to ask.
- throwaway2jz34 4y agoI don't know. Between the pihole & content blocking plugins I didn't even notice it had any third party content. Combine that with the use of reader mode and all I got was a wall of text that made the site as pleasant as browsing the web in the 1990s from the CLI :) And to be more on topic...I quite enjoyed this article, and wish more people would have this level of concern for & desire to know _the truth_.