Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
@GossiTheDog This does remind me of, when browsing the internet, every so often I'll come across a website asking me to disable my Ad Blocker to continue, and...I'm not actually using one.
All I do is set my browsers to never store cookies or history once the browser closes, and to delete all data immediately, or within 24 hours, even if I'm not in Incognito/InPrivate modes.
It's just that my browser sessions are suspicious because of that, I guess, that they claim I have an Ad Blocker?
I've thought about doing that but signing into five sites every morning is such a pain. That doesn't bother you, or did you find a way around that?
@IAmDannyBoling @GossiTheDog My way around that is mostly mobile apps.
But it means I don't have to worry about timeouts, or someone hijacking my session too - my token should be expired when I log out, regardless of if it was sniffed.
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