Post AzMrV1P2NtwmBFJL2u by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
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(DIR) Post #Ayiq1XmLZjJ7d0CG7E by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-09-29T17:26:58Z
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How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.Test your site with no consent for user tracking.Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.Remove them.Remove the cookie banner.
(DIR) Post #Ayiq1YWQoOAdvvl3wm by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2025-09-30T05:34:51Z
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@david_chisnall I saw something about EU rethinking cookie banners:https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/"Commission is pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions or make sure users can set their preferences on cookies once (for example, in their browser settings) instead of every time they visit a website."Frankly I'd love this. If I could just set a browser setting once and for all to tell all the sites to shove the cookies up their nose, I'd be more than happy with that.
(DIR) Post #Ayiq1ZKPoY9YQx8yrA by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-09-30T05:39:01.572987Z
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@prettyhuman @david_chisnall you already can though, many browsers is configurable to ignore cookies.
(DIR) Post #Ayj6SGnGQsCa2DOKzQ by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-09-30T06:52:09Z
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@shironeko @prettyhuman Please don’t repeat this as advice. Cookie controls in browsers do not help. The thing they are asking for consent to do is track you and share that data with third parties. Cookies are one of the ways that they do this. If you click ‘allow all’ and block cookies, you have granted consent and they will use IP address, browser fingerprints, and various other techniques to track you with your explicit consent.
(DIR) Post #Ayj6SI1TrVATqb3Cmu by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-09-30T08:43:08.387802Z
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@david_chisnall @prettyhuman isn't the banner explicitly for cookies? and there's "do not track" in general for other stuff (my understanding is most website ignore that, not sure how legal that is)
(DIR) Post #Ayj7nIhEeYENyIADJY by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-09-30T08:58:09.850777Z
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@david_chisnall @prettyhuman this is the one on European Union website, it is exclusively about cookies.
(DIR) Post #AzMrV1P2NtwmBFJL2u by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2025-10-19T11:47:11Z
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@shironeko This conversation popped up and reminded me of this...While I can do that, the aites will still show the stupid cookie banners at every step. What I would like is the sites to get rid of the popups and just trust the browser when it says no thanks, you are not saving cookies here.Clearly something is not working here, because even if I've set my Firefox to prevent "Cross-site cookies", I still get badgered about the cookies. Let's not fool ourselves a solution already exists.
(DIR) Post #AzMrV2Jkz1Jj19qdSC by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-10-19T13:03:59.288790Z
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@prettyhuman you don't have something that blocks the pop-up automatically?
(DIR) Post #AzMrrQiCxxbL2vxlGi by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-10-19T13:08:06.258726Z
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@prettyhuman the correct way to fix this is opt-in tracking, you cannot track user unless they manually turn it on.
(DIR) Post #AzMvUsKmV8LRs4VQO0 by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2025-10-19T13:34:42Z
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@shironeko Not on my phone. On my desktop sure, but on iPhone it's still Apple's way or the highway. I haven't figured out how would I add uBlock Origin on Firefox on an iOS... It should be a built-in feature in operating system that wouldn't require a 3rd party addon. If Apple doesn't want it there, the EU wide directive/law would tell Tim Apple to go kick rocks. I use internet so much more on my phone that having it working on desktop is only half a solution.
(DIR) Post #AzMvUtjdIDomDR8mlE by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-10-19T13:48:49.608480Z
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@prettyhuman ah, please contact your apple representative.
(DIR) Post #AzMxDdzklD0qNta6hE by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2025-10-19T13:50:51Z
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@shironeko I'd rather contact my EU representative as they have more leverage than a single individual.And again, this is why I'm saying that we should not treat the issue as already solved, since it isn't.
(DIR) Post #AzMxDfCCIQYq6mPYjQ by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-10-19T14:08:07.238275Z
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@prettyhuman “Frankly I'd love this. If I could just set a browser setting once and for all to tell all the sites to shove the cookies up their nose, I'd be more than happy with that.”My reply was to this sentence, if you choose a system where you are not in control and it fails you, too bad. Also I wonder if browsers that have built-in AdBlock exists on iOS? e.g. brave.
(DIR) Post #AzNCqrzq8UhGPnmggy by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2025-10-19T15:40:26Z
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@shironeko There needs to be strong enough legal pressure to make that a norm for all browsers and devices, not just some devices and some browsers. That pressure would come from an EU wide legislation, which is what this thread was about.
(DIR) Post #AzNCqtE3Z7fAEBRYUS by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-10-19T17:03:15.622622Z
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@prettyhuman If you are going for legislation then it is simple, everything must be opt-in. Of course that would not pass since any legislation that would be passed would also be sabotaged by lobbying that it is actually harmful to the internet like gdpr is.