Her:
He's probably thinking about other girls
Me:
He said "AssTechnica" when "ArseTechnica" was right there
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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I literally came here to say this
OP is no longer welcome to visit the UK
Yes, there is tons of tracking / garbage on Ars. You can subscribe or use an adblocker to get rid of it.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=arstechnica.com&device=mobile&location=us
Tl:dr 42 ad trackers, 73 3rd party cookies, facefuck pixel and google analytics
Still some of the best tech coverage, especially since wired is a shopping site and motherboard (vice) imploded
ETA: fun fact, Conde Nast who owns ars and Wired, also owns Reddit. ars coverage of the spez fuckery has been pretty scathing, while still trying to stay within their limits. Check out Scharon Hardings reporting, for instance here https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/
of course, but it doesn't act on this shitty pop-up. I don't look for clearing cookies, but auto reject these cookies consent modals.
Have you tried enabling the "annoyance" filters of ublock? A lot of stuff isn't activated by default.
I've also been enjoying "I don't care about cookies" extension.
Please don't hang me up on this, but I'm pretty sure that "I don't care about cookies" defaults to accepting some/all cookies, while ublock blocks them.
Both get rid of the banners, but if you also want to get rid of the cookies themselves, then ublock might be better.
Edit: Or rather ublock blocks the banner, which means that the site can't legally put a cookie on your PC.
That's correct, it basically is a convenience to get to the site and does nothing for privacy. Also the developer sold out to Avast.
If you want something like this, what you want is https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies which is a fork without the Avast bs
Well, TIL.
I thought it just hid all of them without accepting. Should've read thoroughly.
Considering the name of this community I feel like it is safe to assume that folk around here do care about cookies. An extension that randomly consents to tracking is the opposite of a solution.
Consent-o-matic will deal with most of these for you.
Run by a Danish Uni and works on Chrome, Firefox and Safari
I thought this extension just consents to all cookies automatically?
No, it is configurable so you can decide what yo allow and disallow
Thx
Please and thank you!
excellent, thank you. you are hero! :)
Huh, I don't see any popup there. Probably blocked by my adblocker.
I use uBlock origin. I will rather give a try to Consent-O-matic mentioned earlier.
thanks
Kinda faulty logic. The majority of those cookie prompts literally do nothing. You can check which actually work if you decline them.
The shitty companies make it ridiculously easy to interface with because they actually don’t even want to use them. Hence why most don’t do squat. They want your data.
You’re thinking of it in a legal sense, to make too many hoops to jump thru, which is pointless given users can’t really verify if it does anything.
You’re thinking of it in a legal sense, to make too many hoops to jump thru, which is pointless given users can’t really verify if it does anything.
so why doing this in first place ?! it should be an opt-in not an opt-out.
At the very least, paywall are more honest.
so I maintain: SHITTY COMPANY
Cookies really aren't that concerning. You can clear them anytime