Comment by mrweasel
5 years ago
Why do companies even bother writing that?
They clearly don't care, if they did that box wouldn't even be there.
Sites like Imgur are the absolute worst. "We care about your privacy" and presents you with a list of 1200 companies they share information with.
Because lying works, propaganda works. You won't ever be able to convince everyone but you can confuse enough people that there isn't a united front that demands change. Especially those who want to believe because they're comfortable and thus reluctant to challenge the status quo. Also people who aren't intelligent enough to understand what's going on.
Maybe more in a sense like "I care about your well being, as I'll exploit you and if you die then I can't exploit you anymore." kind of way.
It's not even lying.
When people say “we care about global warming”, it doesn’t mean they want global warming to occur. Same with companies, they don’t want your privacy to continue either.
Is there any way to auto opt-out of these sites? Like an adblocker, but for these privacy pops?
Here's an extension that just removes the cookie popover and shows the page underneath: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
Here's an extension that auto deletes cookies: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
There's an extension for Firefox called: "Never-Consent". It only works for some site and completely breaks other.
ublock origin has several "annoyances" filters you can enable in the settings, they w usually remove them.