Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by mikro2nd on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:48AM
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I was a little baffled by the (legally void, and thus pointless) cookie notice on the site -- a site that clearly does not need cookies in order to "operate correctly". It clearly states that they use Google and other 3rd parties who set cookies, and that these are "necessary for the site to operate correctly" which appears to me to be a nonsense, since it's just a static text page. Tracking cookies are certainly not "necessary".
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Yeah, that's one of the worst cookie notices I've seen in a while, no reject button for what is essentially a page of Markdown.
In addition snarky wording which I can't work out if I hate more than the faux caring "oh you don't mind if we use cookies do you?" language.
FWIW You can use uBlock origin to remove ##.alert-dismissible.alert-info.alert from the page to avoid having to deal with it.
All of those are thanks to the EU.
Totally pointless garbage that further train "Click OK" behaviour (after decades of Microsoft's existing conditioning) and enable malicious parties to take advantage of that behaviour.
Thanks to EU we are aware that plain text website is tracking us.
...What for?
Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by pwdisswordfish9 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:14PM
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Yes, blame the EU. It's never the greedy websites that are at fault.
Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by throwaway_xyeet on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:56AM
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This one actually goes against GDPR since it has no "reject all" button on it.
That's what it was called, I couldn't recall when I commented.