"browsing the internet feel like living in a dystopian hellscape, and annoying cookie banners and consent forms are right at the top of that list." -- "uBlock Origin icon and go to Settings > Filter lists > Annoyances. Enable EasyList Cookie to hide cookie banners"

https://lifehacker.com/you-can-block-those-annoying-cookie-banners-on-every-we-1848936142

#bureaucracy #dystopia #nightmare #ublock #ublockorigin #eu #gdpr #eubureaucracy #consent #block #filter #www #browsing #internet #hellscape #cookies #cookiebanners

Concerning #cookiebanners:
1. Everyone involved has "legitimate interest", even mafia, marketing and intelligence agencies. It's not an excuse.
2. Needing to check boxes to object is opt-out, i.e. *on* by default. Considering the purpose, this is clearly a #DarkPattern and false impression/implication if everything else is turned off to be off.

#privacy

#irony @klonick

The paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6380462

The Vergecast discussion: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/907919/ban-cookie-banners-gemini-maps-vergecast

#cookie #cookieBanners #privacy

We Care About Your Privacy

We and our 716 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device.

Of course you do  , every single one of you 716 fuckers.

#Privacy #CookieBanners #CookieConsent #enshittification

So you care, you say!? No you ****ing don't! These are your defaults!

If you really had cared, you wouldn't need to show this cookie banner at all. That's how much you care.

And then I haven't said a word about your 229 partners who might use your cookies.

#cookiebanner #cookieBanners #cookie #privacy #tracking #wired

GDPR cookie consent was supposed to protect privacy.

Instead, it created annoying popups that 99% of people click through without reading.

Before GDPR: Tracked without consent, working UX
After GDPR: Tracked WITH consent, broken UX

Regulation failed.

Full analysis: https://snugg.social/en/blog/cookie-banners-gdpr-privacy-paradox-tracking

#GDPR #Privacy #CookieBanners #Regulation

How screwed up must a company's thinking be to believe that it's fine and totally normal to have *277* partners that they want to give all of your data to?!

NOBODY that knows of this will be fine with that! So many people "agree" because they are annoyed to their limit and often aren't even aware that it's happening. The Problem is not that companies need to have these cookie banners, the problem is that they collect your data in a frenzy and give it away!

#dataprotection #cookieBanners

OK, that's just Fucking evil.

doesn't matter which way you flip the toggles they all look the same.

#cookieBanners

EU: Here is this thing called GDPR to protect people.
Corporations: Weeel, protecting users does not suit our extractive practices, so we will introduce this little coerc...ehm...consent cookier banner so that people can happily keep being exploited.
People: Booo EU! Such a dum-dum idea this GDPR thing.
Me: :confused-travolta-meme:

#GDPR #EU #CookieBanners