Use the I don’t care about cookies extension its wonderful. Using it on my desktop and android Firefox.
Just FYI - it’s mandatory to have a button like that next to the ‘Accept all’.
Every site that doesn’t do it should be reported.
To where?
The police
Straight to internet headquarters of course.
The serious answer is to whatever your country’s internet regulation agency is (assuming your in the EU, else you’re out of luck). So for example, in France that would be the CNIL, in Germany it’s the BfDI, etc.
Just FYI Germany likes to make things more difficult, so with federation every sub-area is separated in many aspects and has own agencies for different things…
BfDI is only responsible for health and internet-provider institutions (and a few more).
Otherwise you can send it to the one where the company is located at, or always where you are located at. (they will forward it, but that can take a few months, so better to submit where it has to go).
If that’s so it’s incredibly poorly enforced to the point where complaining is unlikely to have any effect at all. Most Sites have a button that leads To a secondary menu where cookie preferences can be set. Perhaps this meets the mandate you speak of? It’s a much more common setup.
The real MVPs are websites not needing a cookie banner because they only use required cookies for which you dont need a banner.
They still have to inform you, right? Like with some banner at the edge of the page telling that they use cookies, just no need for a popup asking you to accept or decline.
✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
Every browser can do that. Some can delete cookies when closing a tab or even when leaving a domain for another.
How do you delete data that’s already transferred to their servers while you visit the page? You don’t need a cookie to uniquely identify a user.
But does it really decline all, or are you agreeing to their “legitimate interest” of stealing your data?
Data collection is theft, change my mind.
I agree.
Unless I click “Accept All”.
Man the worst I saw was a petrol station, when you walked in up to the tills there was this little sign on a floppy plastic thing that said they had face recognition running and a QR code to scan. The text of the sign mentioned “legitimate interests” but in no way directed users to scan the code and go to the website to object their consent.
It’s such bullshit. These companies collect up the data we produce and sell it for pure profit, without offering anything in return. The data brokerage industry is worth multiple trillions of $ per year, with only $8bn people in the world it stands to reason that the average user’s data is worth $1,000 per year, but they just pick that out of our pockets and use it against us.
Sounds super shady. I’d venture that that would be illegal in Europe.
Thankfully the UK isn’t in any Europe anymore! Just say you’re legitimately interested and you can steal user data without any sort of thing!
Ghostery plugin gang rise up!
ITT a horde of people who don’t know that http is stateless. Cookies are the easiest and least intrusive way to maintain your session.
And those are allowed under GDPR as necessary cookies
In Firefox 120+ about:config -> cookiebanners.service.mode 2 (from 0)
No addons required.
Does this accept them?
My favorite banner is from geizhals.de that only says “We recognize you set “Do not track” and we respect that.”
Edit: autocorrect corrected
Too bad the “do not track” message makes you easier to track on every other website
Yeah, my university’s intranet (and I believe also their homepage, but I’m not sure) has the same
Or just sites that don’t need a consent popup because they don’t sell your shit.
I think they will break laws (in countries with basic respect for human right) if they don’t have that option.
I hope that includes what other sites would call “strictly necessary”. No thanks, if your site won’t work without, then I don’t need to visit.
Some US news websites still geoblock European visitors rather than fix their site to not track the ever loving fuck out of visitors who say no. So imagine what they’re doing to their domestic visitors.
I liked it when some news sites did plain text only if you didn’t accept cookies. So no cookies, no ads and don’t have to deal with your crappy css? Why would I ever accept that? It was wonderful.
Because your decline doesn’t matter to them. They will track you even if you explicitly say NO.
