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The one that scares me the most is:
Accept all or Settings
And you have to opt out 5-10 buttons and at the end there is a "save settings" or the "accept all" button again in green.
Who has time for this shit? Just for a stupid article? We need laws against these.
With a heading "We care about your privacy".
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Oh they care. They care a lot. Particularly that you don't have any so they can sell all your details to any bidder.
They care about it so much that they probably have a full time UI designer whose job is to figure out new ways to trick and manipulate users to hand out even more data.
Pretty sure EU law says that the buttons should be identical
Exactly. It should be as easy to decline all cookies as it is to accept. And user's consent can't be implicit.
I wish it was legal to ddos the sites that violate this law.
That's actually a nightmare
Who has time for this shit? Just for a stupid article?
Won't using reader mode ( if your browser supports it ) help you avoid this ? or those browser add-ons like " I don't care about cookies "
Oh I remember those thoroughly cursed menus where you have to manually disable 256 cookies one by one. Havenβt seen those in a while though, so I guess some piece of legislation is doing its job.
I'm honestly surprised no-one has built an extension to automatically opt out of them, or at least the major cookie providers interfaces.
I realise there are many extensions which outright block cookies, etc; I'm meaning specifically the annoying dialogues you describe
In ublock origin settings. There is an "annoyances" group with options. It should take care of most of those popups.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Aarhus university has done exactly that! https://consentomatic.au.dk/
It doesn't work 100% of the time but it's pretty good