Comment by cm2187
9 hours ago
Accept the cookies and flush them out every time you close the browser. I think it would be naive anyway to assume that clicking no on a cookie banner would achieve much for your privacy.
9 hours ago
Accept the cookies and flush them out every time you close the browser. I think it would be naive anyway to assume that clicking no on a cookie banner would achieve much for your privacy.
So-called "cookie banners" usually ask for your consent to much more than optional tracking cookies. By accepting you might be giving your permission to e.g. track you through various fingerprinting methods, build a profile and share it with advertising partners.
If they are aggressive enough to do fingerprinting, what makes you think they would abide to your choice? You do browser fingerprinting when you want to overcome people rejecting cookies.
An additional reason for not browsing the web without uBlock Origin on Firefox or other browsers with full support (not Chrome).
Why even ask for the cookies if denying them doesn’t achieve much?
It’s naive to think that cookies are the only tool used for tracking, but they are the most powerful tool for web based tracking.
Because in some legal systems you're required to ask. You're also required to follow fairly specific rules relates to the user's selection and data, though I can't imagine enforcement keeps up with websites breaking those laws.
Because EU Cookie Law was a flawed idea?
How so? The law doesn't require cookie banners. However, you could argue that tracking/advertisement cookies should have been banned completely and that the law is flawed in that it allows for tracking given user "consent".
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It was not a flawed idea, but flawed execution. The law should have mandated to adhere to the user's "do not track" setting in the browser.
That being said, it was very early regulation in this field, and more recent approaches are already better, e.g., GDPR, DMA.
No, shan’t give them the metrics :)