• alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button

    • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Every other website i visit has a different tactic of hiding their reject button.

      They will even give a second pop up leaving you unable to use the website in hopes of you clicking accept anyway.

        • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          I tend to do the same, also for those websites that come with a secondary pop up.

          Makes me feel like they really don't give a fuck, so why should i then and it's easy to click back and try the next website in the rows of results.

          The weirdest one i found was a couple days ago and i kinda give them props for it, as it made me go: "woooow almost had me."

          They had this whole standard wall of text with reasons to get you to accept and i didn't see thr reject all button. It was a fairly lenghty wall too so i started scanning it for recognizeable words until my eyes passed: "reject" in the text. It was regular looking text but clickable.

    • frippa@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      The EU does force the reject all button, however companies and websites often don't care about the law; some newspaper in my country straight up ask for a subscription to let you have the privilege of disabling cookies on their ad-ridden dying websites, and many more don't have a "reject all" button.

      I try to report some of them but who knows if it does something.

      Plus from personal experience; when you setup a GDPR button through Google, by default there is no "reject all" button. Or the equally mandatory "x" to close the popup, thus rejecting cookies. You need to tick a box to enable them.

  • gearheart@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Was raised in an age where where you needed firewalls, antiviruses, spam blocks and ad blocks, Ect to surf the web safety.

    Now companies are doing everything they can to make sure you disable all it to have the privilege of using their website.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I get why soulless corporations do this, but why do regular folks choose to publish their content on Medium, Substack, Devto, etc. when this is the shitty UX they’ll be forcing on their readers.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Unironically the best thing about Hexbear is that it doesn't blast you with pop-ups nagging you to make an account. Even Google on my phone will nag me to make an account when I pull up the webpage like I always have for almost two decades.

    • Masimatutu@mander.xyz
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      10 months ago

      That applies to much of the Fediverse. It's great to see a growing chunk of the web that's genuinely free.

      Also, consider switching search engine, you don't want to be fueling an evil megacorporation and letting it know all about you, plus DuckDuckGo is probably even better nowadays.

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Duly noted, but I've also heard a bit about ecosia. Is that any good?

        EDIT: Pulled up the wikipedia page and was delightfully treated to this " the ads served on DuckDuckGo are based on keywords and terms of the search query."

        How 'targeted ads' should be. "Hey, I see you're looking for an item, here are some companies to consider for said item."

        • Masimatutu@mander.xyz
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          10 months ago

          It's cool and all because you can passively plant trees, but really it doesn't make much of a difference for the environment and you pay for it with your privacy. There are many better ways to help the climate, so I say nah.