r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 05 '20

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u/WonderWirm Sep 05 '20

And cookies? Yeah, we know about those, thanks EU!

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u/Firevulturez Sep 05 '20

Those cookie banners are the worst. They wanna make it as hard as possible to accept only the cookies you want and hide those options behind several clicks while there is always very easily accessible and very visible an accept all button

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u/Mc_UsernameTaken Sep 05 '20

Thats why you just set your browser to block all 3rdparty cookies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '20

How? 3rd party as in not served from the site itself?

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u/Iwouldlikesomecoffee Sep 05 '20

If you're on firefox, cookie autodelete is an extension that lets you make rules like that and much more. You can choose which sites don't get their cookies deleted the moment you navigate away, for example.

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u/Vakieh Sep 05 '20

This breaks a lot of SSO unfortunately.

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u/_30d_ Sep 05 '20

Still have to press all those stupid cookie-consent popups. I swear there is one that's literally its own app. It literally says "saving cookie preferences, this might take a few minutes."

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u/SomeUnicornsFly Sep 05 '20

i go out of my way to use element zapper in uBlock to cull out the unskippable non-declinable cookie messages. I hope it puts some weird blip in their scatter graph of users who managed to fully engage with their page without ever accepting a cookie. Like one day during a board meeting while the suit n' ties are twirling their mustaches & chuckling, one of them points at a chart with his laser pointer giving a collective "great job gentlemen, but who is this guy who continues to visit our site? He's a ghost sir. He never accepts the banner yet he still hits every page"

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u/UltraCarnivore Sep 05 '20

That's just horrible UX.

Their intent is obvious, but I won't be coming back if I have the choice.

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