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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fouronnes3 on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:46AM (#33314988)
The absolute worse for me was when I found myself trying to explain to my grandma that you must ALLOW cookie preferences, but you must absolutely DENY notification permissions. For trying to read some news online... The web is a harmful mess.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by mort96 on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:10AM (#33315177)
The shitty thing is, she'd probably be better served by denying cookie preferences... but despite whatever regulations say, companies find impressively difficult ways to keep the user from answering "no, please don't spy on me".
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by smallerfish on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:28AM (#33315327)
Every cookie banner that I've ever clicked "no" on has let me proceed to the main site. The user is still a potential viewer of ads, even if they can't be microtargeted, so it's worth it to the site to let them proceed.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by felixg3 on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:55AM (#33315050)
In Firefox, for example, you can deny every request for notifications in the settings.

For the cookie thing you can just install “I don’t care about cookies”

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by colinsane on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:08AM (#33315159)
i hope you understand the inherent irony of your second suggestion, but if you missed it: I Don’t Care About Cookies just got bought by one of these companies known for similar types of abusive UX (surveillance-ware).
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fisian on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:59AM (#33315563)
There is a fork by the community "I still don't care about cookies" (note the "still") that should avoid any evil stuff Avast would do to the original extension.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by jamincan on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:36AM (#33318095)
But, of course, you have to be a savvy enough, and informed enough user to even know this.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by t0mas88 on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:06AM (#33315136)
Same in Chrome, it's great: https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by Nextgrid on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:45AM (#33315942)
If you're going to install add-ons, just get them uBlock Origin and enable all filter lists. The "annoyances" lists block all the cookie madness.
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