Intrusive cookie messages
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Rage wrote:
let me navigate your website WITHOUT COLLECTING THE DAMN DATA OR PUTTING COOKIES EVERYWHERE.
You want them to add if statements around all of their cookie code? :-D That could take some time.
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"That could take some time"... exactly. But if they both want me to visit their site, and to comply with GDPR and other privacy laws, that's the cost of doing business. The point of my original post was that far too often companies are being damn lazy and just splattering a "we're gonna load up your machine with our cookies, if you don't like it, tough you don't even get to see our home page" sign (or words to that effect). GDPR meant to make cookies optional, but companies are so lazy they take the easy approach. Of course the cookie-dependent code should be conditional - as developers we should all know not to make assumptions about the presence of things we can't directly control (like cookies) so even without an opt-out option, the site shouldn't fall over in their absence. The issue is just the tip of an iceberg that could sink society - the laziness, sloppiness and self-centredness of most of today's business. (In fact it's not just businesses, either - increasingly it's on charity, "public service" information, government sites etc too). Plus, I was wondering if other people do what I do - just delete the offending HTML elements so I can see what I want to on the page (and without navigating further on the site).
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Is it just me...? More and more (it seems especially over the past couple of weeks?) many sites are putting up increasingly intrusive cookie permission pop-ups. What used to be a simple, narrow banner at the top of the page or an animated small slide-down somewhere, has now become a full, or almost full, screen div that obliterates most, or even all, of the page content. The cookie messages frequently include stupid statements such as "these cookies are essential to proper operation of the site" when all it is is a tracking cookie. Half the time I can't even tell if I really want to visit the site / read the article because the sodding cookie message hides everything else. Some give the option to accept cookies or to decline them; but many just have the option to accept or to not use the site. I realise the site owner has every right to put whatever conditions they like on their content, but it really winds me up. I'm finding that up to a dozen times a day I'm just right-clicking and choosing "Inspect element", then deleting the offending HTML element(s). This probably has no effect on the placement of cookies but I'm darned if I'm going to play the stupid games that the site authors clearly want to get involved in.
This takes care of most of them... I don't care about cookies 2.9.6[^]
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Sander Rossel wrote:
about companies preying on the weak (addicts, children, the sick, otherwise vulnerable people)?
Ya, but that's nothing new. Like I said, it's called being a salesman.
Sander Rossel wrote:
They're inevitably going to use that data to make more money at your expense.
Again, the only thing new here is that it is easier now. But the concept is as old as sales people have been around. The downfall of paying based on commissions only.
Sander Rossel wrote:
Like selling your data so now everybody knows what you do, when you do it, where you do it and how you do it
First off, most people have been carrying a tracking device in their pocket for years now. Secondly, no one has my address so no one can pinpoint my activities to me directly. And even if they did know that I bought toilet paper from walmart.com, what damage can that do?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
As PT Barnum used to say, there's a sucker born every minute.