“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast

Re:“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast by Semaphor on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:55PM (#32861870)

You can already see it with Google Ads. Some ads don’t get delivered if you don’t allow "create a profile on me". Now, if you think companies will ignore even explicit laws every time instead of finding loopholes, then yes, it’s useless. But at least for some part of it, it’s easily provable that they don’t.

Consent-o-matic is the extension that people use that do care about tracking (or believe that most companies will mostly follow the law, I guess).

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Re:“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast by wartijn_ on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:43AM (#32862179)

Yeah, Consent-o-matic is what I've started to use after today's news. Didn't know it existed until a couple of hours ago. I'm just not convinced it'll be a huge improvement over using (pre Avast) I don't care about cookies. And I still think that saying "This was an extension for people who don’t care about privacy" is a pretty big overgeneralization.

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