Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
by latexr on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:06PM
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No, it has very much also accomplished the task of showing you in (literal) big bright banners which websites have complete disregard for your data. If a website goes to great lengths to trick you into giving away your data, that’s a fantastic sign you should leave and never come back.
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
by dcow on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:43PM
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No it doesn’t. It shows you which websites are big enough to be a target and/or to have entire regulatory compliance teams that are spooked by the threat of a revenue fine to invest enough resources into implementing a horribly bad UX just to dot their “i”s.
Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
by latexr on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:32AM
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There’s nothing in the regulation that says the UX has to be bad; quite the contrary!¹ That’s the point: the harder a service goes out of their way to make the data collection UX bad—which is harder than making it simple—the less they care about you.
In addition, legitimate cookies to provide a service don’t require consent.²
If you’re annoyed at the EU instead of the websites, you’ve played right into the hands of the people wanting your data for illegitimate purposes. Every time you agree to a bad cookie banner you validate their shady practices and make the web worse for everyone, including yourself.
¹ https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come
² https://wikis.ec.europa.eu/display/WEBGUIDE/04.+Cookies+and+...