“We and our 2,565 advertising partners respect your privacy” is always a good laugh before hitting decline on the ones uBlock doesn’t catch automatically
I also love seeing the “legitimate interest” ad/tracking cookies that don’t get disabled automatically. GDPR’s big mistake was allowing the trackers to decide whether or not they have a legitimate interest. Because of course a bunch of scummy ones just automatically list themselves as legitimate.
“My sibling in Christ, if you truly respected my privacy you wouldn’t need to ask for this.”
Just watching it going through the banner and disabling everything is mesmerizing.
The consent tools that make you open up a second window to manually reject everything can fuck right off
That trouble exists because “Art. 7 GDPR only requires that withdrawing consent must be as easy as providing consent. It does not state that declining consent must be as easy as consenting.” and is being closed as more and more courts rule on it.
I believe all of the default cookie banner plugins will update and add the Reject All button in the first layer soon.There are arguments against requiring a “Reject All” button in the first layer of a cookie consent management solution. This requirement is not explicitly included in the GDPR or the EU ePrivacy Directive. Art. 7 GDPR only requires that withdrawing consent must be as easy as providing consent. It does not state that declining consent must be as easy as consenting. However, the trend of the published views of the data protection authorities is towards including a “Reject All” button also in the first layer. Organizations should thus review compliance of their cookie consent solutions.
The Hanover Administrative Court in Germany delivered a landmark ruling that strengthens digital privacy protections by targeting manipulative cookie banners as Germany continues to take a strong stance against manipulative cookie consent banners that engage in dark patterns. This decision, led by Lower Saxony Data Protection Officer Denis Lehmkemper, mandates that websites must provide users with a clear, easy, and genuine choice to reject cookies, specifically requiring a visible “reject all” button alongside any “accept all” option.
The EU has a globally available browser extension called Consent-O-Matic that rejects all cookies for you before you even see those popups. It’s available for every browser I’ve used so far. It’s also free.
Thanks!
Idk that seems like a pretty big tool…
ublock origin has a cookie banners list that isn’t enabled by default but can filter out a lot of these. try it out!
laughed so loud at this pic
Ublock Origin
And there is 0 legitimate reasons to use cookies in 2025, there are technologies for everything that do not coincidentally do illegal tracking.
Have fun building a login without cookies. I’m sure it’s possible, but session cookies are by far the most common and secure mechanism, used basically everywhere including Lemmy
Have plenty of thos. The fact they are common is a shame.
You can turn on a filter list in uBlock Origin, to have those Cookie notices automatically hidden.
Combine with e.g. Cookie AutoDelete to automatically delete whatever cookies still get stored.
who’s the dude in the pic
Ricardo Milos
cool my heart’s broken now. this man will never love me. life has nothing of value. jumps
Ricardo Milos
I wonder what he’s up to now, 20 years later. Rumor has it he’s never been on any social media. He’s just out there living in the real world, living an authentic unpretentious life.
I’m pretty sure he died a few years ago.
What makes you think he’s dead?
Read it on the news in Russian some years ago. He has some serious fanbase with traditionalist nazi homophobes, you know. I used to read bullshit written by my mortal opponents before I read Lyotard, thought it promotes critical thought and reflexy.
Extremely untrustworthy source, sure, but I have no others and do not care enough. Cool dude but I’m not into dancing.
I’ll always upvote Ricardo.
One of the reasons I use private-mode 99.999% of the time.
That fixes local logs. Like for your partner seeing your porn in browser history on a shared computer, or ‘cis woman fucks trans woman with massive xenomorph forehead strap-on’ to not auto complete in front of your boss when typing in a search.
… And the cookies are also deleted when I close the window, where I can then re-open the browser for a different site if I like.
I think you’re probably going to be surprised when you discover how little that does to stop you getting tracked by the dozens of ad networks running their tracking pixels on that site.
I know… I’m just responding to the current subject of the meme, cookies.
Did you know you can block these with most decent adblock plugins? Hide that element babyyyyy
You rarely even need to hide the element; Just enable the Cookie Consent blocklist in uBlock Origin.
wow, didn’t know unblock origin had that. I need to go find that feature
There are a bunch of blocklists in the settings that aren’t enabled by default. I’d suggest you go take a look at them.
But do you want the cookie, or the ask, to fuck off?
Yes
Brave browser can block all third party cookies and delete the ones from any website you close all tabs from if you don’t want the cookies from those sites to be saved
Yeah but then you have to run Brave browser 🤢
I’m sure the same can be accomplished on Firefox-based browsers with an extension or two
Yeah, third-party cookies are blocked by default and the remaining cookies can be automatically deleted with Cookie AutoDelete.
It’s always funny seeing the huge disconnect between Lemmy and Reddit on this one specific topic. On Reddit, Brave’s marketing was wildly successful. If you say anything negative about it, you’ll almost immediately be buried in downvotes. But here, it is known as a conservative cryptobro grift, so mentioning anything positive about it gets you attacked.
I always assume the Brave proponents on Lemmy are recent Reddit transplants.
the moment that Brave stops working well is the moment I stop praising it.
unlike chrome and firefox, it’s easy to turn off the crap in brave, the options to turn those things off are right in plain sight and easy to figure out
I’m not so sure how politics got into a web browser with integrated adblocking though. Supposedly the creator of Brave was fired from mozilla for being a bigot. But no one who says that has ever been able to tell me what he said that was so horrible that he had to be fired. Which leads me to believe it’s either a flat out lie that didn’t happen at all or it was blown out of proportion
on top of that, Google’s war on adblockers is more than just blocking you from accessing youtube, there’s also lots of google-funded propaganda about the makers of adblocking software and the software its self. But it’s not just google funding that kind of propaganda it’s all the other malware companies funding it too.
what do I mean by “malware companies”? all online advertising is malware and blocking it should be considered part of any security setup
Supposedly the creator of Brave was fired from mozilla for being a bigot. But no one who says that has ever been able to tell me what he said that was so horrible that he had to be fired. Which leads me to believe it’s either a flat out lie that didn’t happen at all or it was blown out of proportion
I mean, this was the second result on DuckDuckGo (I skipped the first result, because it was a Reddit post) when I searched “Brave Browser Creator Bigot”. He donated in support of California’s Prop 8, which was an attempt to ban gay marriage by amending California’s constitution. And he’s (at least partially) funded by Peter Thiel.
From the article:
In 2014, [Brandon Eich] was appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which immediately caused backlash from at least a few people inside Mozilla and many people outside the organization. Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Eich wrote a blog post defending himself in 2012, when the donation was initially discovered, where did not apologize and denied the donation made him a bigot…
Brendan Eich quit after 11 days as CEO. He then went on to create Brave Software and obtain $2.5 million in early funding by late 2015, then another $4.5 million by mid-2016.
Here’s a bonus fun fact: one of those early investors was Founders Fund, which is operated by billionaire Peter Thiel. He’s a regular campaign donor to far-right political candidates, and said in an essay that “I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Brave is cryptofasch bullshit. Do not use it.
Brave Browser’s CEO is an anti LGBT+ bigot.
Use Firefox with Ublock Origin instead.
Brave Browser’s CEO is an anti LGBT+ bigot.
what did he say that makes you think that? Do you even know what he said? or are you going to be yet another person who has said that to me who never answers that question?
He donated to groups that opposed Prop 8. The whole reason why Brave Browser exists to begin with is because he was kicked out of Mozilla for his views. The entire browser is built on bigotry.
Don’t make me do your work for you; this is widely available information. There’s this thing, called a “search engine”, that allows you to search the web for entertainment, news, and information. Give it a try sometime. Here’s a link: https://duckduckgo.com/
All you gave me was a link to the front page of duckduckgo And by the way, duckduckgo broke their promise not to tailor results several years ago and still tailors results now
Here’s what proton Lumo could find about the allegation you just brought up with no evidence
Brendan Eich—co‑founder of Brave—has publicly disclosed one political contribution that often comes up in discussions about him: in 2008 he gave US $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same‑sex marriage in the state. That donation was made years before Brave existed (the browser launched in 2016) and was aimed at a social‑policy cause, not at supporting the browser or its development.
There’s no record of Eich (or Brave Software) making a monetary donation to a third‑party organization specifically to promote or fund Brave. Instead, Brave’s growth has been financed primarily through:
Venture funding and private investment – early rounds led by investors such as Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and others. Revenue from the Brave Rewards program – a portion of the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem that shares ad revenue with users and publishers. Partnerships and affiliate programs – e.g., collaborations with nonprofits like Japan’s “Code for Everyone” (Minna no Code) where users can direct BAT earnings to the cause, but these are partnerships, not donations from Eich himself. So, while Eich did donate $1,000 to Prop 8, that contribution was unrelated to Brave and did not serve to support the browser’s development or promotion. The browser’s financing comes from venture capital, its own ad‑revenue model, and strategic partnerships rather than personal charitable donations from its creator.
So he donated to a group that also supported prop 8. To be perfectly clear, I don’t think any marriage sanctions by the government needs to be a thing. If you want to be committed to someone or even more than one person, as long as you’re all consenting adults and you’re all keeping the sexual things you do with each other private and out of sight of anyone who doesn’t want to see it, you do you
You’re insane if you think I’m reading that wall of text. Did you remember to take your medication today? I already told you that I’m not going to do your homework for you.
Use the browser if you want, or don’t. You don’t have to justify yourself to me; I couldn’t care any less.
Best wishes to you, friend. ✌️
