Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with "848 of our partners" and "actively scan device details for identification".
Hate when they remove the reject all button
In the EU and UK this is also forbidden as rejecting should be as simple as accepting cookies.
In theory yes, in practice "uh-huh."
Bruh
Consent-o-matic browser extension can handle a lot of cookie banners and automatically rejects all possible cookies.
I used to rely on Consent-O-Matic a lot, but I'm somewhat uncomfortable by the fact that the extension has full access to all web page content. I mean I understand why, but I'm still uncomfortable with it. In the end I ended up uninstalling it because it broke some sites so that they wouldn't load at all, or got stuck into an infinite reload loop. On majority of cases it works alright though.
Oh alr thank you
I just implemented a cookie consent bar on my company's website and the agencies/vendors who advertise for us were giving me so much shit for having reject available right away. But thankfully our Legal department said keep it there... Or else. "Hands tied..... Soooooorry!"
If trackers are disabled, some content and ads you see may not be as relevant to you.
Oh, the horror! (Not that we'll be seeing ads anyway.)
That doesn't include the partners of their partners
This is for legal reasons mostly. They don't think anyone reads this so they went for the most blunt and transparent language, which also gives them the most legal certainty. The banner is missing the reject all button though, which in Europe is seen as required by many of the privacy regulators.
If the partner count is larger than the number of bananas I can imagine being in a bunch I decline cookies. If I can't disable performance or targeting cookies I decline cookies. These are my rules
til I can only imagine 0 bananas in a bunch
I switched to cookie allowlist, and manually add the sites I want to remember me. I don't want to play the cookie game anymore, period. The only reason they ask is because legally they have to, and even then they do the bare minimum and use dark patterns to make it as hard as possible to decline cookies.
No more cookies for anyone, should have used them responsibly in the first place.
Yea because I want a news site to have my precise geolocation data.
Is it really so hard to copy and paste the text? Down voted. Don't do that again.
We and our 848 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device. Selecting "I Accept" enables tracking technologies to support the purposes shown under "we and our partners process data to provide," whereas selecting "Reject All" or withdrawing your consent will disable them. If trackers are disabled, some content and ads you see may not be as relevant to you. You can resurface this menu to change your choices or withdraw consent at any time by clicking the ["privacy preferences"] link on the bottom of the webpage [or the floating icon on the bottom-left of the webpage, if applicable]. Your choices will have effect within our Website. For more details, refer to our Privacy Policy. Cookie Policy. Ways we may use your data:
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Develop and improve services. Create profiles to personalise content. Measure advertising performance. Use limited data to select advertising. Use limited data to select content. Use profiles to select personalised content. Create profiles for personalised advertising. Measure content performance. Use profiles to select personalised advertising. Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources. Store and/or access information on a device.
List of Partners (vendors)
Is it really so hard to ~~copy and paste the text~~ look at the image? Down voted. Don't do that again.
For blind peope, yes. Asshole. This is why we have rules against posting images of text.
I'm colorblind for what it's worth and I don't go around yelling at people for making badly colored charts I can't understand in the rudest way possible.
The image captures the web page design / the cookie banner, it's more than "just the words" so for a non-blind person "just post the text" is actually arguably a downgrade.
I mean this is literally the purpose of alt text, so that you can share an image and its description (which in this case should contain all the text from the image) and screen readers can do their thing.
But you should, since there are accessibility rules against low contrast.
is it really so hard to look at the image
Uuuuuuuh... Have you considered that there are people who have problems with their eyes or are outright blind?
Don't be an ass again.
You don’t have OCR in your eyes 😮? Or do you use a screen reader, there must be screen readers that can OCR, tho, or are there none?
Accessibility standards require us to not put text in images. Its not hard to copy and paste the text.
2 days and this post has fewer likes than number of companies that get your data for visiting the Verge. Holy crap, that's terrifying
Check out the Snowden movie. That's so much worse.
Well. I appreciate the honesty.. I guess.
Don't worry bro, its just me and 2000 of my closest friends. Totally legit.
It's truly crazy how much our information gets shared these days and how long it lingers.
My house spent a few years as a rental. I still get mail from people who haven't lived here in over a decade (despite deliberate efforts to stop it).
My grandpa signed up for ever "store card" you can imagine to get all the deals and rewards programs. His landline virtually never stops ringing... On August 5th alone he got, no joke, 43 spam calls (I have his landline hooked up to Jolly Roger Telephone to try and filter some of this out and help him out, so I'm forming that statistic off of the emails from them).
It's completely ridiculous and all of it needs to stop.
I just occasionally wipe everything. I have to reenter passwords and such but it isn't a big deal.
Remember when they passed laws protecting our library and video store rental histories instead of letting data brokers hoover up every song you listen to and every news article you read?
We all have a fundamental right to privacy, which is constantly violated. Not just on a daily basis, but on a minute by minute basis.
But to play devil's advocate for a moment to assuage some FUD around posts like this, how many of the absurd amount of cookies overlap in otherwise innoculous ways. For instance, product tracking cookies. Say you bought a pumpkin on Amazon, and that drops a gorde cookie, a pumpkin spice cookie, a cornucopia cookie etc.
That's certainly not the same as buy a pumpkin, track your location around the nearest pumpkin patch, read your grandma's emails about pumpkins, and collect information to determine your likelihood of buying another pumpkin based on your sexual orientation.
The latter certainly exists, but does anyone know much about the former? How prevalent would they be in that 850?
And the EU has forced us to answer that goddamn "do you accept cookies?" question on every frigging website. How many people just click "accept all" to get on with things?
THAT IS A BIG FAT LIE! The EU did not force any such thing. The EU simply said that people's data cannot be used without consent. This is the website asking for consent.
Website developers have a perfectly valid choice not to collect any data. They chose their profits above your privacy.
I have a website and I don't have a popup asking for consent, because I don't need to, because I don't collect any data.
ok to be honest i'd rather have the choice to accept or decline it and waste a couple seconds then having all of that enabled by default with no way to reject them
I'm on the verge.