I am authoring an IETF draft to help with this. The agreement formats recently got approved by IEEE.
Oh, where can I inform myself more about your work?
The main site: https://myterms.info/
My draft, which will likely be introduced to the list this week with a BOF (meeting) request for IETF 126 in Vienna: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-curtis-myterms/
It’s focused on contractual agreements overall, but it supports machine negotiation based on headers, which is how our reference implementations handles cookie banners.
You need to add 500 surveillance devices at the end of the top segment, and 498 at the end of the bottom segment
Or worse: pay to decline cookies
“You are our product, user”
My old email provider added that and I still have some accounts linked to it… IMAP is now the only way I access that mailbox
Surefire way for a site to ensure they immediately make my blocklist
consent-o-matic my goat
I just wish it was a native feature of browsers instead of something that is part of the page. Like, all the other permissions - camera, microphone, Bluetooth, USB, etc access - are native, why can’t be the “hey let me write some crap onto your device that other pages may or may not read” and “hey lemme see what I wrote onto your device when invoked from another website” requests be native too?
Because it would be harder, there are 2 types of cookies: essential ones, necessary for the site to work correctly (remember login, preferences and a bunch of other things) and there are other cookies that are not necessary, and there is no real way to add this distinction since the browser doesn’t really have any way to understand which are which; Also, before anyone reply “but if i don’t want to remember my login?” Some sites still write temporary cookies to work
You can also see what cookies are wrote on your device with Developer tools
Adding support for two types of cookies instead of one (and having a default the browser sends to the site) isn’t black magic fuckery or some unachievable alchemical process. It’s done easily.
Librewolf doesn’t save cookies by default, and you can toggle them on if you need to
Reject all cookies by default + noscript.
Occasional websites I use frequently that use cookies for session management get a whitelist exception.
Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don’t even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.
I mean do you really think they don’t use cookies when you don’t press accept anyway?
I’m using Consent-O-Matic and it works surprisingly well.
I hoped it would be mentioned before, but in the EU It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.
Report such sites for non-compliance.
I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn’t bring me related ads.
Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅
i used to get spam calls about back pain medication, i’m 26, no back pain yet, thankfully. but they kept calling me nonetheless
thankfully i’m european so one day i cited the law to be forgotten, and once they told me “sorry we can’t :(” and i replied “well you better fix that because that’s illegal :)” they hung up immediately and never called me again :D
I just run uMatrix and AdNauseam on Zen. If a banner shows up after allowing scripts its the good ol’ right click > block element.
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Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time
What browsers support it?
Not sure about chromium ones but it works on all firefox based browsers
I think the only one you can’t use it in is chrome mobile since it doesn’t support extensions
Settings > Privacy > Manage> Select unwanted cookies and remove them.
