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[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I'm using Consent-O-Matic and it works surprisingly well.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 72 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We and our 19,324 legitimate business partners use cookies to offer you the best experience possible!

[–] ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Now, to disable all cookies, you have to click all 19,324 toggles

[–] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 2 days ago

Why would you put extra effort into telling them you want cookies? Just block everything.

While you're wasting your time on clicking shitty popups, I'm already reading the page.

[–] axh@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I love the concept of "Legitimate interest"... Like, why the hell anyone even consider storing my data in ILLEGITIMATE interest?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 2 days ago

I don’t even know what legitimate interest means. Are they saying they’re going to sell my data to someone if they have a legit interest in my data? Who would buy data if they DIDNT have a legit interest in it? I don’t get it

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and apparently "we're legitimately interested in your data" is enough to clear that ridiculously low threshold 🤬

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would love to know how much my data is actually worth, like to the cent and why.

[–] axh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

to the cent

I don't know the answer but I feel like you value your data much higher than they do.

My guess is that they just want to squeeze every single cent out of us all, and if violating our privacy and making our experience worse can give them one additional dollar for every 1000 or 10000 users, that is a price they are willing to pay... or to be precise, that's the price they are willing to sell us for.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Your data is worth much more than that, actually.

Proton calculates your data is worth, on average, $700/year. Granted, they have a financial interest in making that number as high as possible, because it's basically an ad for them.

I've read somewhere that data price varies a lot per demographic, with some data being worth just a few $ per year and some other data being worth way more than $1000/y. I can't find the source I read that on, so take it with a grain of salt.

Either way, it's very certainly more than a few cents per year per person.

[–] ollie@pawb.social 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] fonix232@fedia.io 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I just wish it was a native feature of browsers instead of something that is part of the page. Like, all the other permissions - camera, microphone, Bluetooth, USB, etc access - are native, why can't be the "hey let me write some crap onto your device that other pages may or may not read" and "hey lemme see what I wrote onto your device when invoked from another website" requests be native too?

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Librewolf doesn't save cookies by default, and you can toggle them on if you need to

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[–] janakali@lemmy.4d2.org 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
  1. install ublock origin
  2. enable "cookie notices" filters
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gasp

I'm so dumb. I didn't even know I had to enable that... God it should physically hurt to be this stupid

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Not really, its kind of one those things; if you don't know, how could you? Unless you're the kinda person to sit there and read every option of everything.

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[–] msage@programming.dev 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hoped it would be mentioned before, but in the EU It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

Report such sites for non-compliance.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am authoring an IETF draft to help with this. The agreement formats recently got approved by IEEE.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, where can I inform myself more about your work?

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The main site: https://myterms.info/

My draft, which will likely be introduced to the list this week with a BOF (meeting) request for IETF 126 in Vienna: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-curtis-myterms/

It's focused on contractual agreements overall, but it supports machine negotiation based on headers, which is how our reference implementations handles cookie banners.

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Just open dev tools, storage, nuke them

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What browsers really should implement is to store all third party cookies in a jar for the specific site I am on until I navigate to another domain or close the tab. The cookies are saved and returned to the 3rd party sites embedded in the site I use. But if the same 3rd party sites are also embedded in other sites, they have to send fresh cookies.
Cookies become useless for tracking and all the legislation specifically around them can be axed.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

That feature is called containers on Firefox

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

I just use the I Don't Care About Cookies addon.

I don't know if it's just agreeing or disagreeing, but I suspect they're all selling your data regardless of what you pick.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like the button that says reject non essential. That should be a required button.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

It is actually.

Enforcement is crap.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 8 points 3 days ago

(for websites you don't use often)

  1. Open link in private tab
  2. Accept all
[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn't bring me related ads.

Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

i used to get spam calls about back pain medication, i'm 26, no back pain yet, thankfully. but they kept calling me nonetheless

thankfully i'm european so one day i cited the law to be forgotten, and once they told me "sorry we can't :(" and i replied "well you better fix that because that's illegal :)" they hung up immediately and never called me again :D

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

ALT+F4 also works or cmd+Q

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

just hide cookie-related shit with ublock origin

[–] wiccan2@thelemmy.club 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Or worse: pay to decline cookies

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 7 points 4 days ago

Surefire way for a site to ensure they immediately make my blocklist

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

On many websites, the cookies are created no matter what you choose. It's a dark pattern to get you to accept all, yes, but In the end it's often meaningless.

Use a decent browser like librewolf which isolates cookies so only the site that created them can access them and clears all cookies on exit - this protects you from bad effects of cookies so you can just accept all. However, you're still susceptible to other methods of tracking (like IP address or browser fingerprint based tracking) unless you use Tor Browser or something similar.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 2 days ago

I use a ff plugin called cookie auto delete. I white list some sites like the self hosted stuff, but for the most part, nothing is exempt.

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Me on the work laptop

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago

You need to add 500 surveillance devices at the end of the top segment, and 498 at the end of the bottom segment

[–] FatherPeanut@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don't even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

UBlock handles them well if you enable the cookie notice list. If one slips through, I now accept all because cookies are erased as soon as I close my browser

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