Comment by zugi
1 day ago
> Just set your browser to delete all the cookies at the end of the session except for whatever sites you want to allow to 'remember' you
Exactly. I use the "I don't care about cookies" extension, which rejects most cookies automatically without me having to see the popups. But even accepting cookies is fine - I'll be closing my browser soon anyway and they'll be gone.
Despite this being called a "cookie banner", this is not _just_ about cookie. When you click "Accept all" you are giving your consent to any form of tracking and information sharing mentioned in the details. The site you visit may share everything they know about you with any third party they mentioned. They can even use fingerprinting (if you've agreed to it) to keep tracking you after you've deleted the cookies.
And then? What's the practical, concrete, real-life consequence for me? Nothing, not even a bit more relevant ads as these run into my adblocker anyway.
It's not only about you. It is about a practice, that is manipulative and even endangering certain kinds of people. By not caring about these things, we as a society have made the Internet a dangerous place in some regions for journalists and other types of people.
Yeah honestly I just assume sites fingerprint and track to the extent the visitors allow.
I'll be closing my browser soon anyway and they'll be gone
Sure, your browser cookie will be gone. But you have already allowed the server-side identifiers of your session to be used for whatever purpose, including reconstituting increasingly larger parts of your identity over multiple disconnected sessions. Please don't make the mistake of thinking that clearing your cookies afterwards is the same as rejecting all server-side processing.
Sure, but "rejecting all server-side processing" is basically trusting the website to honor my wishes. I don't put much faith in that at all.
They'll have my IP and browser fingerprint. Using Firefox mobile narrows me down to 1-2% of the world, but also lets me run ad blockers and noscript, to block some of the more troublesome trackers.
It's all tradeoffs...
The naming of that extension is misleading then. You do care about cookies ... not ending up on your device. Does it really reject the cookies, or does it just default to accepting everything, because "one doesn't care"?