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consent-o-matic my goat
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?
Librewolf doesn’t save cookies by default, and you can toggle them on if you need to
Because it would be harder, there are 2 types of cookies: essential ones, necessary for the site to work correctly (remember login, preferences and a bunch of other things) and there are other cookies that are not necessary, and there is no real way to add this distinction since the browser doesn’t really have any way to understand which are which; Also, before anyone reply “but if i don’t want to remember my login?” Some sites still write temporary cookies to work
You can also see what cookies are wrote on your device with Developer tools
Adding support for two types of cookies instead of one (and having a default the browser sends to the site) isn’t black magic fuckery or some unachievable alchemical process. It’s done easily.
Yep, but would companies use them? I doubt, they want profit, they ain’t using that and companies often define standards, so the only hope is to propose to the EU to enforce it or smth
Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time
What browsers support it?
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I think the only one you can’t use it in is chrome mobile since it doesn’t support extensions
Firefox does.
I love the concept of “Legitimate interest”… Like, why the hell anyone even consider storing my data in ILLEGITIMATE interest?
Yeah, and apparently “we’re legitimately interested in your data” is enough to clear that ridiculously low threshold 🤬
I would love to know how much my data is actually worth, like to the cent and why.
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.
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.
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- install ublock origin
- enable “cookie notices” filters
Gasp
I’m so dumb. I didn’t even know I had to enable that… God it should physically hurt to be this stupid
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.
What if I want it to hurt? :3
Add
https://*to your filter list.lmaoooooo asked and answered
Surprisingly, it doesn’t actually block sites, it just makes them all look like they’re from 1992.
http://*really blocks them.@helpImTrappedOnline @yakko when the internet was gud
Waow
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.
Or worse: pay to decline cookies
Surefire way for a site to ensure they immediately make my blocklist
“You are our product, user”
My old email provider added that and I still have some accounts linked to it… IMAP is now the only way I access that mailbox
I like the button that says reject non essential. That should be a required button.
It is actually.
Enforcement is crap.
You need to add 500 surveillance devices at the end of the top segment, and 498 at the end of the bottom segment
(for websites you don’t use often)
- Open link in private tab
- Accept all
Me on the work laptop
I’m using Consent-O-Matic and it works surprisingly well.
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.
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I am authoring an IETF draft to help with this. The agreement formats recently got approved by IEEE.
Oh, where can I inform myself more about your work?
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.
Isnt this a feature in base Firefox? You can tell it to delete all cookies on close except for sites you add exceptions for
By default firefox can only do this on browser close not on tab close. I never used this extension but this seems like a good upgrade to only deleting on exit.
Thank you!!
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