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ASstechnica : shittiest cookie consent popup champion ever (lemmy.ninja)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The more tricky and clicky it is, the more shitty the people behind are. This is the lamest way (to try) to bypass rules and therefore pretty insulting to their audience. First contender: Arstechnica.com from Condé Nasty cult.

"Oh, the regulation say we must tell the users why we need cookies and provide how to opt out... mmh but we need those shit, let's find a way to stay compliant but discourage the opt-out in the most sonOfremovedWay."

Even, TheVerge and other from Vox Media sphere, which I thought were the nastiest, have changed it back to a simple consent or do not consent button.

ASstechnica likes to play the SJW, rights defensers, criticizes celebrieties or shitty on twitter but with their cookie maze consent shit containing a 100ish of advertisers (that you have to disable one bye one), they are litterally the worse BSiter ever.

So of course, I pass on but not without telling the fediverse how hypocrite this site/company is.

hero point +1 :P

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Her:

He's probably thinking about other girls

Me:

He said "AssTechnica" when "ArseTechnica" was right there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I literally came here to say this

OP is no longer welcome to visit the UK

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, there is tons of tracking / garbage on Ars. You can subscribe or use an adblocker to get rid of it.

https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=arstechnica.com&device=mobile&location=us

Tl:dr 42 ad trackers, 73 3rd party cookies, facefuck pixel and google analytics

Still some of the best tech coverage, especially since wired is a shopping site and motherboard (vice) imploded

ETA: fun fact, Conde Nast who owns ars and Wired, also owns Reddit. ars coverage of the spez fuckery has been pretty scathing, while still trying to stay within their limits. Check out Scharon Hardings reporting, for instance here https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/

[–] slazer2au 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Consent-o-matic will deal with most of these for you.

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Run by a Danish Uni and works on Chrome, Firefox and Safari

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought this extension just consents to all cookies automatically?

[–] slazer2au 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, it is configurable so you can decide what yo allow and disallow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thx

[–] SinningStromgald 2 points 9 months ago

Please and thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

excellent, thank you. you are hero! :)

[+] igorlogius 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

of course, but it doesn't act on this shitty pop-up. I don't look for clearing cookies, but auto reject these cookies consent modals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Have you tried enabling the "annoyance" filters of ublock? A lot of stuff isn't activated by default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've also been enjoying "I don't care about cookies" extension.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Please don't hang me up on this, but I'm pretty sure that "I don't care about cookies" defaults to accepting some/all cookies, while ublock blocks them.

Both get rid of the banners, but if you also want to get rid of the cookies themselves, then ublock might be better.

Edit: Or rather ublock blocks the banner, which means that the site can't legally put a cookie on your PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's correct, it basically is a convenience to get to the site and does nothing for privacy. Also the developer sold out to Avast.

If you want something like this, what you want is https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies which is a fork without the Avast bs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well, TIL.

I thought it just hid all of them without accepting. Should've read thoroughly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Considering the name of this community I feel like it is safe to assume that folk around here do care about cookies. An extension that randomly consents to tracking is the opposite of a solution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I don't see any popup there. Probably blocked by my adblocker.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I use uBlock origin. I will rather give a try to Consent-O-matic mentioned earlier.

thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kinda faulty logic. The majority of those cookie prompts literally do nothing. You can check which actually work if you decline them.

The shitty companies make it ridiculously easy to interface with because they actually don’t even want to use them. Hence why most don’t do squat. They want your data.

You’re thinking of it in a legal sense, to make too many hoops to jump thru, which is pointless given users can’t really verify if it does anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You’re thinking of it in a legal sense, to make too many hoops to jump thru, which is pointless given users can’t really verify if it does anything.

so why doing this in first place ?! it should be an opt-in not an opt-out.

At the very least, paywall are more honest.

so I maintain: SHITTY COMPANY

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Cookies really aren't that concerning. You can clear them anytime