[HN Gopher] Hush - Noiseless Browsing for Safari
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Hush - Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Author : sysadm1n
Score : 21 points
Date : 2023-09-17 21:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (oblador.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (oblador.github.io)
| asynchronous wrote:
| Cookie banners are so annoying. I support any extension to remove
| them.
| mrtksn wrote:
| They are probably designed to be like that so you can rush into
| accepting the tracking across the web.
|
| The web has become a sad place where most of the content is
| made for showing you ads and tracking you around, therefore
| tracking cookies are needed, therefore tracking cookie
| permission batters are displayed.
| frizlab wrote:
| The DuckDuckGo browser automatically manages (auto-refuses)
| these banners. It also has a lot of privacy-preserving features
| and a distraction-free youtube player that's nice. And most of
| all it's WebKit based, which is good for engine diversity, I
| guess.
| stranded22 wrote:
| On iOS, the only engine available is WebKit.
|
| On Android, it uses blink (Chromium)
| bananapub wrote:
| they're designed to be annoying, a perfectly reasonable
| response to GDPR was to stop being fucking creepy
| kseifried wrote:
| I'm trying to think of when I want my browser to make noise.
|
| Outside of Squadcast, YouTube and CBC, and... I'm drawing a
| blank. I feel like allow listing a handful of websites to make
| noise would be fine.
|
| Edit: Also, let's see if anybody replying to this actually read
| the article I know this isn't exactly what the article talks
| about but it's what came to my mind when I saw the title.
| gtowey wrote:
| GDPR in Europe is what started it all. The law says that you must
| get explicit user consent for all kinds of data tracking.
|
| However it doesn't say how that should happen.
|
| The annoying banners are completely a decision the industry has
| made. It's so weird to me that pretty much everyone adopted a
| near identical way to implement this. It also feels like
| retaliation -- a way to punish users by making these banners as
| disruptive as possible, and then blame it on regulations. It's
| like companies would rather destroy the web than give in and
| actually make it better.
| xctr94 wrote:
| It's also a remarkably stupid implementation. If you follow the
| rules [1] in a strict way, the website should be usable if the
| user denied consent to non-essential cookie usage. You don't
| need consent for strictly necessary cookies.
|
| So a bunch of websites don't actually need a cookie banner, as
| long as they're not using non-essential cookies. You could
| easily get consent for marketing/tracking cookies in an
| unobtrusive way.
|
| Instead, a lot of websites must have seen a drop in conversion
| because no one wants to interact with these awful cookie popups
| that have a hundred toggles.
|
| AFAIK the page-blocking cookie banners don't just convert
| worse, they're actually not permitted (you can't block the
| experience to force consent).
|
| On my end: unless your website is very important to me, I'll
| just refuse the cookies or hit the back button and load the
| next search result.
|
| 1: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
| tikkun wrote:
| What are some better ways to do it?
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