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A comment on Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation ... by SomeBoolshit on Sunday December 12, 2021 @08:09AM (#29529320)
It hasn't made me stop visiting any sites because the banners are almost omnipresent, but I've started using incognito mode way more, so I can blindly accept whatever the site wants me to.
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Re:Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation ... by thih9 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:09AM (#29529725)
An ad provider might connect your incognito session with your regular session. Especially if you blindly click “accept”, since then you might agree to being tracked across sessions and devices.
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Re:Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation ... by slx26 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:25AM (#29530910)
Well, many sites include cookies to link devices as required cookies anyway. So even if you reject the rest, you are still accepting some form of "device linking". It's hopeless.
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Re:Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation ... by netmare on Sunday December 12, 2021 @08:39AM (#29529517)
A clickbaitey site I visited recently detected incognito mode and would not let me in. I don't remember if it had a simple overlay or missing content, since I immediately went away.
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