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I am going to use this opportunity to ask: Why is that stackoverflow sites absolutely, positively cannot seem to remember my cookie preferences and seemingly a
by avemg 1y ago
I am going to use this opportunity to ask: Why is that stackoverflow sites absolutely, positively cannot seem to remember my cookie preferences and seemingly ask me every single time I find myself there?
- learningmore 1y agoYes! I’ve even considered finding some extension to just accept every cookie option for every site, so just I’m not hammered with consent dialogs on StackOverflow. I use multiple browsers for testing, across multiple computers. Perhaps this fact, along with their consent expiration policy causes the consent dialogs to always show.
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- int_19h 1y agoIt's because they are using a third-party (cookielaw.org) cookie to record the your choice. So if your browser is configured to not allow third-party cookies - e.g. Safari's "prevent third party tracking" and similar options in other browsers, or PiHole and AdGuard - this breaks them. And yes, it's a known issue going back several years. The official response is "it affects less than 1% of our users, so fuck you".
- cedws 1y agoMust be positioning themselves for a Microsoft acquisition!
- LegionMammal978 1y agoHow would they even be able to fix it, short of redirecting all their domains to stackexchange.com subdomains (and causing a colossal branding mess and making everyone mad)? Almost by definition, anything that would allow them to know you've accepted cookies on a different domain would be a form of tracking that all the anti-tracking stuff would clamp down on.
- int_19h 1y agoThe fix would be to use a per-domain cookie, and don't expire it in just a few days.
- kristianp 1y agoAren't 3rd party cookies blocked by default in Chrome? Obviously not.