Stack Overflow has dozens of domains and each of them has the dumb cookie popup.. I set up a Ublock rule and modify it for (iirc) all sites, so I don't see the element with the ID on any site (I think it has the term "stack" in the id/class name). Ah, bliss!

I get hyper-targeted ads trying to sell me electrical distribution equipment and air handling units because I run commercial electrical work (mostly mechanical equipment focused) and search for a lot of equipment part numbers. They’re on target, but ineffective.

None of the ads could ever be effective, I have my supply houses that I buy from and they don’t advertise online.

I do have a decent amount of buying power at work (single digit millions a year) but no internet ad from an electrical distributor is ever going to influence my purchasing decision.

Or "relevant" in the sense that it's something I bought recently: I searched for vacuum cleaners, found one I liked an bought it. Now I will be seeing ads for vacuum cleaners for the next few months.

The really funny ones are when you buy something online then receive a deluge of ads for the thing you just purchased

The cookie thing is just a red herring. Who gives a damn about cookies? Are they suddenly a privacy problem after decades in use? The people who want to track you (including these crooked governments who are pretending to care about cookies) are doing much more than using cookies these days. Which is exactly why they felt it safe to raise this giant kerfuffle about cookies. It's a distraction.

I'll partially acknowledge this point (nice move btw) but frankly, if I MUST see ads, being shown ads that would at least target my demographic is at least more interesting to me. For example, I often get shown stuff that only nerds would like, and being one, at minimum I smile sometimes, even if I don't click on it

>How do you object to the site's legitimate interest use of your personal data?

With the legitimate individual control over one own data required to run a healthy society and unavoidable to sustain a democracy. If a business can't exist without threatening society, the sooner it's going out of existence the better.

If it is an actual legitimate interest then you would likely be expected to contact the site out of band to object to the use of your data. Depending on the technical details you might not be able to continue using the site after a successful objection. In some cases the site might be able to reject your request.

The cookie banner thing is intended to allow the user to explicitly provide consent, should they for some reason wish to do so.

Legitimate interest is defined as that usage that is absolutely technically necessary. Which is why you cannot object to legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest is for example a website using your IP to send you the necessary TCP/IP packets with the website's content upon request.

Many websites use the term "legitimate interest" misleadingly (or even fraudulently), but that's not how GDPR defines it.

Undoing whatever data collection and sharing, as well as seeking and obtaining restitution, is probably a much harder problem to solve (for you) if you select accept.

A lot of the notices provide exactly the info you need to be informed, it's on you if you want to read it or not.

I've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and the actual consent modal. Websites then use various mechanisms to prevent scrolling. uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down and can't interact with.

If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.

Until this moment, I did the same thing… but right now I realize, this behavior incentivizes a domain owner to intentionally break their site, to trick the visitor to disable their blocker.

Then the browser: refreshes the page, downloadz all the thingz… presents cookie banner.

I’ve been using uBlock (or Brave) for years now, and when “something doesn’t work right” the first thing I often do is lower my shields… :facepalm:

From now on, I’ll just bounce. Keep your cookies, I’m not hungry.

LinkedIn - it takes you to the allow/deny page but doesn't automate things. It used to be that the LinkedIn login would get stuck in a cycle around this, but now it just dumps you on to the consent page.

Well it does change if you have more of a choice than reject all or allow all (without needing to go into complicated settings each time). Telemetry is not that unpopular - I'd like devs to fix bugs I encounter.

Do you think Walmart should be handing your credit card numbers out? Genetic profiles of you? Is there any limit or do you think if you walk into a space whoever owns that space can get and do whatever they want with any information you might happen to have on you?

> I disagree with this idea that businesses should have to keep their customers secret

They don’t. They just have to ask the person whose personal data it is if they can.

There are plenty of places folks visit that they would rather not have out loud.

True, but considering that the extension was bought in 2022 by Avast, maybe it has its own tracking built in by now or will have something concerning done to it in the future. So even if the user does not care about cookies that much I would still recommend this new extension over "I don't care about cookies"

But this thread stars with someone saying they don’t care about cookies because they’ll delete them anyway. That’s different than saying they don’t care about their privacy, so it’s worth pointing out that accepting every cookie banner does have privacy implications beyond just having cookies placed.

zevv obviously cares about cookies and privacy

Option a) don't use those embeds

Option b) ask the consent in the embed.

Analytics can be done without banner requiring tracking, e.g. https://plausible.io/