Comment by dmix
3 years ago
> To website visitors: if you see a cookie banner, the site is asking permission to spy on you. If that concerns you, close the tab.
I'd love to see how often people do anything besides click okay anyway (I'd be very surprised if it wasn't 99%+).
Unless there is a very simple "reject" button, I click okay. Between Firefox's native protections, DNS-level blocking and uBlock, I have a lot more confidence in my own protections than I do in their honesty, and it's not worth it to me to uncheck a bunch of boxes.
Sometimes it's easier on mobile to just accept all the garbage cookies and then clear my cookies & site data after I'm done with the page.
But they are probably fingerprinting my phone anyway through other means.
Yeah clicking anything but okay or reject all (which I rarely ever come across) is usually a maze of options no one has time for except some tiny dedicated minority.
Really? I could have sworn the EU regulation requires dropping all non-essential cookies in 2 clicks or less - and that tracks with nearly every site I interact with that has a cookie banner.