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That was by far the most hostile cookie banner I've ever seen by a lot. It required multiple levels of saying no with a bid level of clicking reject a few hund
by erikerikson 11mo ago
That was by far the most hostile cookie banner I've ever seen by a lot. It required multiple levels of saying no with a bid level of clicking reject a few hundred times. It wasn't worth it.
- cube00 11mo agoUnless you pay for the subscription you can't reject all of it anyway. * Data processing by advertising providers including personalised advertising with profiling - Consent required for free use The full page reload after wasting all that time to realise I don't actually have a choice was a nice touch.
- 1718627440 11mo agoDelete the banner from the DOM. They can't process your data legally until you pressed that button. That's why the reload is. When you delete it, you never pressed the button.
- GoblinSlayer 11mo agoOr just use noscript.
- lucb1e 11mo agoNote that this is considered not freely given consent by various data protection authorities, including the Dutch one (quite strongly; could find a source but would be in Dutch) and the European-wide collective of them (more weakly): https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/edpb-consent-or-pay-models-should-offer-real-choice_en https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/edpb-consent-or-pa... It's not like GDPR is new or dubiously worded on this aspect. They're willfully ignoring both ethical boundaries and the law I don't know why people keep sending me / sharing Heise links. There's more than one news website in the world