Well you eat it of course
There are addons that try to auto decline all. They do a reasonable job at it
Firefox (or Librewolf) + Ublock Origin, done.
Not difficult
Self destructing cookies extension. Problem solved.
I set my browser to delete all cookies on exit. I suppose they only get one session worth of information. I havent researched how m much better it is. Opinions?
At least one tabloid newspaper in Finland (Iltalehti) has put the settings behind a paywall. Accept tracking or pay up.
Which is not allowed, and they could be sued for tiny lil fees. IF someone would sue them.
Nothing more awesome than half-assed solution that actually do nothing and help noone but increase work for everyone involved. This is peak efficiency.
Enable the annoyances/cookies list in uBlock origin and forget about them
But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless
Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.
When uou accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension “I still don’t care about cookies”
This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.
It’s also illegal. The “no fuck you” button should be as visible and accessible as the “accept all”.
Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
Obviously, no one cares. There’s no real consequences, cookies are still dropped on your system regardless of consent, and cookies weren’t even the real problem to begin with, user profiling had already moved to include other invasive techniques.
As far as making something complex and useless go, it’d have been way easier to work with the w3c to add attributes to cookies to identify their purpose (essential, preferences, etc.) so the browser could filter them out based on that attributes and the matching of the current website. It would have meant way less work on the website owners, provide ways for end-user to set their preferences universally and be done with it, enforced said preferences, and so on. And people that would lie on the purpose of their cookie would still lie, but could be caught red-handed (assuming anyone actually cared).
Instead we got this mess.
It’s also straight up illegal under gdpr. Rejecting all unnecessary cookies must be as easy as accepting them.
I block their cookies anyways because i doubt they even listen to us when we opt out to begin with.
The Policy: “Are you sure you don’t not want for us to not not share all your data with third party advertisers?” The Options: Not Disagree | Don’t Agree
I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.
A great EU-solution to protect us this was. No more evil cookies…
And who would care about the gazillions of scripts that still track you hard. And the fingerprint of your browser that makes you unique-ish. And dare do disallow just one tiny script and the whole site breaks and makes your browser cry.
I miss the internet shortly before and after google came up. Just information.
