Every website is legally required to ask about cookies now, which has successfully made everyone click "accept all" without reading anything. Privacy restored
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I find some malicious glee in using ublockorgin to delete the cookie banner from the site without clicking anything.
That's a myth, perpetuated by the intransigent corporations addicted to #SurveillanceCapitalism and who petulantly spent a lot of pointless effort to annoy every website user.
The #GDPR does not require those banners. Every site could just *abstain from tracking* for anything except essential website functions; no questions required for that.
> Strictly necessary cookies […] it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies […]
> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies. […]
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Every site that thrusts a cookie consent banner at you, has *chosen to do it*. Nothing, certainly not the EU, requires it.
The site is declaring “We would rather make a big change to piss off every visitor, than ever stop tracking people around the web.”
@Daojoan are they legally required? I thought that requirement was only if you install tracking cookies, and these web services who wanted to fleece a bit more money selling ads to their users were maliciously complying with the law to make the web more annoying so more people would hate the privacy laws that let them track you without you knowing about it. Has the law changed recently?
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