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Weird question to ask through radio, over.
Enabling an Annoyances list in ublock origin prevents some of these from dicking up, thankfully.
Cookie questions unfortunately are required by law in the EU so don’t meet Gruber’s own definition.
That said the EU needs to force browser makers to respect a set of more granular “do not tracks” settings and then just read the “necessary/functional/settings/marketing” acceptance from there.
The law doesn’t require cookie questions to be dickovers.
No, the dark patterns are terrible.
Exactly, we should be able to set the cookie settings on the phone or computer and have the device apply them to every website, as we see fit, rather than deal with a pop up and subsequent screens every web page to reject cookies.
The DNT header was supposed to do this, but no legislation ever required anyone to respect it and it got dropped. Global Privacy Control seems to be the new try, hopefully it goes better.
Meanwhile you can use the Consent-O-Matic extension. You set your preference once and auto applies to the all websites.
Yeah it sort of works.
My website has a dickbar, because I need to request consent for using Google Analytics. Am I doing it wrong? I’m honestly not sure how I’d be able to avoid showing the dickbar while still having some form of insight into how visitors are interacting with my website.
I do hate those things. Even the BBC uses a dickover on their site…
I just back out when sites pull this and find an alternative.
Wow, I haven’t thought of Daring Fireball for over a decade. Used to read it often back in ~2010. Cool to see he’s still around.
Wasn’t this guy a fawning Apple fanboy for at least a decade? If I recall correctly, Apple only invites reporters who say nice things about their products to WWDC and he always gets an invite. I’m curious as to why anyone thinks anything he says on tech is notable in any way
I sense that all started with the stupid GDPR popups. If so, then sincere apologies from Europe.
I feel like the newsletter signups came first
