Comment by strangeattractr
5 years ago
Maybe the blocked content is just divine retribution for the abhorrent cookie consent buttons we all have to press 20 times a day now.
5 years ago
Maybe the blocked content is just divine retribution for the abhorrent cookie consent buttons we all have to press 20 times a day now.
Many sites show cookie consent when they don't have to.
You don't have to show cookie consent when you use cookies purely for "technical stuff" - e.g cookie based authentication.
>Operational cookies
>There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:
>authentication cookies
>technical cookies required by certain IT systems
https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en
Consent is only necessary for cookies that aren't in the interest of the user (session cookies, other cookies set to fulfil user requests).
You only "have to" press these because a lot of websites decide they'd rather torture users with popups than stop tracking personal data.
I've never even been to Europe, and I still get them. What are we Americans, chopped liver?
Looks like sites "care about you" just as much as they do about Europeans.
I recommend the Consent-O-Matic browser extension and failing that, the "I don't care about cookies" browser extension.
https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
... only when paired with cookie browser settings switched to strict blocking.
Maybe because everyone (According to Facebook anyway, which is very not true) there wants to track - GDPR ain't really about the cookies, it's about the mismatch of corporate America's desire to track versus Europe's desire to not get tracked. Heck, American companies are breaking American law, at least in California.