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The cookie preference pop up on this site is unacceptable - 1 click to accept all cookies, SEVEN clicks to reject all cookies.

boxed 2mo ago
And if you scroll down you get a popup to ask for your email for their newsletter. The irony of an article about enshittification on a site that is clearly enshittified is strong.
Stitch4223 2mo ago
And after a few minutes of reading a pop-up shows for joining their mailing list. There is no mention of the usual enshittyfication, instead their complaint is that things look generic and that is the last of the list. I would say this is a feature. The points about locking and dumbing down products are well researched, true and worrisome. I’ve bought a NAS after watching NASCompares a few years ago, and also an ethernet adapter. His videos are nice. Talking about enshittyfication on an enshittyfied site misses the mark a little bit. “Legitimate interest”… lol.
blooalien 2mo ago
> The cookie preference pop up on this site is unacceptable - 1 click to accept all cookies, SEVEN clicks to reject all cookies. Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. At least on par with "contempt of court" type situations. Sure, they may (just barely) comply with the absolute letter of the law, but the spirit of the law is surely being very much abused and deeply disrespected there.
- Aerolfos 2mo ago
  > Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is illegal. > To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: > [...] > - Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies > - Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place. 7 clicks is not as easy as one "accept all", violating the last point. Not allowing you to dismiss the banner and access the site violates the other point. The real problem is enforcement, unfortunately.
  - dmayle 2mo ago
    I have seen a few occasional sites that are even worse than this one.. Not only don't you get a reject all, you get two classes of settings, the default "types", and "trusted partners", and for trusted partners, about a third of them have what's called "legitimate interest" turned on, which means "we legitimately think we can share your data with this people after leading you to believe we haven't, and that's ok", and there are a hundred or more partners you have to scroll through and disable this for
- PunchyHamster 2mo ago
  > Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is not malicious compliance It is not complying to the law Law clearly states how the reject path should look and they are NOT in compliance, just nobody sued them yet
layer8 2mo ago
Not to excuse the site, but you should really be using an ad blocker that takes care of that. I see nothing, neither on mobile nor desktop.
timbit42 2mo ago
I don't see these because I use the, 'I still don't care about cookies' add-on. I also use, 'Cookie Auto-Delete', which deletes a sites cookies as soon as I close the tab, unless I specify to keep them, which I do on sites I want to remain logged into. It surprises me people put up with these annoyances, or ads either.
- jraph 2mo ago
  This extension gives consent, and cookies are not the only technical way of tracking. Using uBlock Origin with cookie consent modal filters is way better (but causes breakage at times).

boxed 2mo ago

And if you scroll down you get a popup to ask for your email for their newsletter. The irony of an article about enshittification on a site that is clearly enshittified is strong.

Stitch4223 2mo ago

And after a few minutes of reading a pop-up shows for joining their mailing list. There is no mention of the usual enshittyfication, instead their complaint is that things look generic and that is the last of the list. I would say this is a feature. The points about locking and dumbing down products are well researched, true and worrisome. I’ve bought a NAS after watching NASCompares a few years ago, and also an ethernet adapter. His videos are nice. Talking about enshittyfication on an enshittyfied site misses the mark a little bit. “Legitimate interest”… lol.

blooalien 2mo ago

> The cookie preference pop up on this site is unacceptable - 1 click to accept all cookies, SEVEN clicks to reject all cookies. Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. At least on par with "contempt of court" type situations. Sure, they may (just barely) comply with the absolute letter of the law, but the spirit of the law is surely being very much abused and deeply disrespected there.

Aerolfos 2mo ago
> Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is illegal. > To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: > [...] > - Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies > - Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place. 7 clicks is not as easy as one "accept all", violating the last point. Not allowing you to dismiss the banner and access the site violates the other point. The real problem is enforcement, unfortunately.
- dmayle 2mo ago
  I have seen a few occasional sites that are even worse than this one.. Not only don't you get a reject all, you get two classes of settings, the default "types", and "trusted partners", and for trusted partners, about a third of them have what's called "legitimate interest" turned on, which means "we legitimately think we can share your data with this people after leading you to believe we haven't, and that's ok", and there are a hundred or more partners you have to scroll through and disable this for
PunchyHamster 2mo ago
> Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is not malicious compliance It is not complying to the law Law clearly states how the reject path should look and they are NOT in compliance, just nobody sued them yet

layer8 2mo ago

Not to excuse the site, but you should really be using an ad blocker that takes care of that. I see nothing, neither on mobile nor desktop.

timbit42 2mo ago

I don't see these because I use the, 'I still don't care about cookies' add-on. I also use, 'Cookie Auto-Delete', which deletes a sites cookies as soon as I close the tab, unless I specify to keep them, which I do on sites I want to remain logged into. It surprises me people put up with these annoyances, or ads either.

jraph 2mo ago
This extension gives consent, and cookies are not the only technical way of tracking. Using uBlock Origin with cookie consent modal filters is way better (but causes breakage at times).