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Re:The Google home page is 500K by black_puppydog on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:26AM (#29671555)
Using google search without being logged in and clearing cookies regularly will constantly harass you with a very intrusive "cookie banner". Quotes because it's much more than that.

The sole purpose of these is to get you to globally log into google and stay logged in.

So I don't think it really makes much of a difference.

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Re:The Google home page is 500K by tinus_hn on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:12AM (#29671873)
The sole result for me has been a pretty insistent reminder that I should not be using this service.
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Re:The Google home page is 500K by tjoff on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:39AM (#29672072)
Agree. The routine of opting out of that every day is very important. It is a constant reminder that I absolutely need to further reduce the use of google services.
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Re:The Google home page is 500K by jkaplowitz on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:42AM (#29672795)
That's true in Europe but not in the US, I believe. It is indeed one of the more obnoxious cookie consent banners I've seen.
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Re:The Google home page is 500K by axiosgunnar on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:40AM (#29673127)
It‘s annoying as fuck but tbh I got used to it, it‘s second nature to me now.
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Re:The Google home page is 500K by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:22PM (#29676173)
"I don't care about cookies" + "Cookie Autodelete" add-ons solve that problem easily for me.
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