Duck duck go browser with auto refuse turned on. It stops tracking cookies by default. And then I burn them all anyway when I'm done.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Firefox has settings to automatically hit accept or to automatically hit deny or to first try to hit deny then hit accept if it didn't work. You could end up agreeing to things you might not want to either way though (as sometimes opt out and deny are seperate things you need to do both for.)
I open 'settings' or 'show more' and disable all I can on most aitea, as that's usually enough. Some sites ar such a nousanse I either avoid them or just open a private window, accept all, read what I want to read and close the window, thus wiping all cookies.
This is an eu only thing. Eu passed a law years ago and since then we are boned.
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I don’t have a helpful answer, I’m just commenting so I can find out if anyone else does…
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Couldn't agree more. I absolutely hate the half-assed job the EU did on this. Who the hell thought we'd want to get harassed on every site we visit?
I don't get why this is even needed. AFAIK the user can set sites that are not allowed to set cookies in the browser settings in chrome and Firefox at least. In theory this should work even better and more reliable than those damn popups.
They can but that doesn’t get rid of the banners, or worse the plague that is screen overlays.
I was talking about the way the law was made. Why does it require every site to implement a function that the browser already has and does better. They could have made it a requirement for browsers to inform the user about his possibility to block cookies from certain domains on the first launch, just like they made Microsoft to inform about other available browsers after the first startup of Windows XP (I think it was XP...).
But there is something even better coming I heard - there will be the possibility to have a 'trusted external service' handle the cookie opt-in-and-out for the users. WHY?! It looks like these laws are made by people without any kind of understanding how any of this even works...
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