Never seen one to address the amount of externals they send your data to. Could be a EU thing?

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[–] 48 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"We value your privacy" above 1032 partners and no disagree button is unhinged

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    "We value your privacy" is the most common lie on the internet in the last decade

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    It isn't a lie, they value your privacy a lot, they make money selling it to third parties.

    Longer the text of the PP, less privacy in the service, always. Services with real privacy don't need a long PP with a lot of legal jerga, they have nothing to hide. Best to scan the service with Webbkoll or Blacklight, Or Exodus (Android), there you see what they do with your data.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Isn't there supposed to be a one click disagree to all button, legally? Or did I misunderstand that law?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd like to think that there's a disagree button in the "more" button, but I'm not holding my breath. As an aside, I've seen some (Guardian, for example) that let you disagree IF you subscribe for money. Pretty sure that's gotta be illegal.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    usually, that format involves toggling off every single one of their third party partners, and then a separate toggle is further down for each one's "legitimate use" or something.

    they're clearly hoping that by making it incredibly time-consuming to go through every option, that most people would give in and accept all.

    i don't think that's supposed to be allowed under GDPR, but making complaints is also time-consuming. i'd rather just leave those sites immediately after seeing there's no "reject all" and make a mental note that their stinky site is unusable 🤷

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    I think it's regional. Often you'll see "necessary only" which, who knows what they consider "necessary". If you have a adblocker, there's typically a list for "cookie annoyances" you need to enable for some reason. If that doesn't work you can always use the element picker, although that sometimes breaks the site. If that happens I just leave.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They do that quite often. Fully EU compliant would be if it had a disagree button right next to agree.

    Highest one I've seen was around 1700.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Highest one I’ve seen was around 1700.

    they're all dragnets -- scraping everything it can get like a black hole

    back in the late augts the data broker i worked for only used a tiny fraction out of all the scraped data because they didn't want to spend all the money of data engineer salaries. i bet AI has ramped it into unthinkable overdrive.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    https://consentomatic.au.dk/

    Pick your default level from reject through to accept, and it'll click through the boxes automatically. Works on the consent boxes for about 95% of the sites I visit.

    Some bastard sites still insist you click through each of the 1000 partners.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm pretty sure most sites just ignore this at least I don't trust them not to. You should use u-block and enable the proper privacy filters (it can block cookie popups too)

    betterfox shows a good list of privacy filters to setup.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I landed on a page last week that actually had a "No" button on the "Please disable your adblocker" popup. It just returned to displaying the page normally. Nice job, website.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    We value your privacy so much that we got rid of the disagree button and found some extra partners who also value your privacy a lot. Like, you have no idea how much they’re paying us. It’s just crazy… Ahem, so that’s why we really value your privacy.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    Dickovers like this make the internet so frustrating to use, even when they don't have >1k BFF advertisers.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    what if i Decline

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Block element ≠ Agree

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    The most that I've encountered was just over 1500 partners.

    I guess it is an EU thing yeah. But not having the information does not make it much better

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    If you use ublock you can enable privacy filters and popup blockers. If you don't use ublock you should! (it's really good)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    lmao. really gotta disable javascript by default these days.

    highly recommend nutensor on firefox for js whitelist (along with ublock origin for premade blacklist blocking)

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