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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by aaronrobinson on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:45AM (#45668227)
This. And the ones that mean you have to manually switch off multiple legitimate interest toggles mean I just press the back button.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by 1718627440 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:12AM (#45670382)
I do this as well, but in case I do want to read the site, I just delete the node from the DOM.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by bmacho on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:15AM (#45669505)
+1 it's a win-win situation. The website announces upfront that they are malicious so I can just leave
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by rkomorn on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:23AM (#45668754)
> I just press the back button

I do this more and more, and I think it's the right and best thing to do.

Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by mrguyorama on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:00PM (#45673612)
Since "legitimate interest" means you don't need consent, they do not let you toggle it off.

If they are showing you a toggle and calling it for "legitimate interest", they are most likely lying.

They love to put cookies under "performance and enhancements" as if that isn't bullshit as well.

All legitimate interest cookies are in the greyed out toggle for "required cookies".

By law, you can decline all and the site should still work fine, which again means they won't allow you to turn off actually needed cookies.

Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by aaronrobinson on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:51PM (#45784737)
I’m not sure what your experience is but there a many different GDPR dialogues but most are off the shelf components. One in particular (the apps Hoshi and Guriddo use) has maybe 20 legitimate interest toggles and there’s no reject all.

Just because the law says you should have a reject all doesn’t mean sites do it.