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#285928 26-May-2021 13:50

Some UK/EU sites are constantly requesting me to approve all of their cookies.

My default is to disallow a lot of add centric tracking cookies, but the next time I visit I get their cookie approval pop-up again. I tested this in a dummy browser instance and unless I accept all of their cookies I get the pop-up on the next visit.

Is anyone else seeing this sort of behaviour?

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danielparker

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#2713183 26-May-2021 13:55

Could it be that as you are not accepting cookies, they can not set a cookie to store that you had seen the cookie request already?

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#2713213 26-May-2021 14:31

danielparker:

Could it be that as you are not accepting cookies, they can not set a cookie to store that you had seen the cookie request already?

I'm accepting a range of cookies, but the pop-up will only go away when I accept all the cookies including all the ad-tracking etc.

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#2713222 26-May-2021 14:51

So everything is working as designed it seems?

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#2713308 26-May-2021 15:40

Some cookies don't need to be "accepted" and the site owner just needs to let you know they exist. These include cookies that are required for the operation off the site such as login and obviously preferences. Other cookies such as consent for personalised ads, tracking, demographics need to be accepted or rejected.

Not sure why in your case is not working for all sites. Perhaps you have an option to clear all cookies when closing the browser?

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#2713319 26-May-2021 16:31

The ones that annoy me are the forms for accepting cookies that are deliberately made to be as time-consuming and confusing as possible, in an obvious effort to get you to just click "all" in frustration.

Some considerate sites have a single button in the initial banner.

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#2713325 26-May-2021 16:50

One thing that annoys me with the new cookie acceptance is some sites default to “accept all”, so you have to go in and only select the necessary cookies..

I miss the old days of just clicking ok without caring what cookies were being used

Edit: Didn’t see @networkn’s reply to the same effect

ChrisNZL

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#2713332 26-May-2021 17:57

Really wish web browsers (Chrome, Firefox) would add some sort of native opt-in API for cookies, much like when asking to allow location tracking, allow pop-up windows, allow microphone access, etc.

You can disable cookies, disable third-party cookies, or allow all... but the flow is very unintuitive, and each website is different.

In-page pop-ups (called catfish banners I think?), regardless of their purpose, are just annoying 😑

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#2713635 27-May-2021 09:44

There's a Firefox & Chrome extension called "I don't care about cookies" that automatically accepts the cookies popups.

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#2713638 27-May-2021 09:49

ChrisNZL:

Really wish web browsers (Chrome, Firefox) would add some sort of native opt-in API for cookies, much like when asking to allow location tracking, allow pop-up windows, allow microphone access, etc.

You can disable cookies, disable third-party cookies, or allow all... but the flow is very unintuitive, and each website is different.

In-page pop-ups (called catfish banners I think?), regardless of their purpose, are just annoying 😑

Internet Explorer, of all things, has been able to do that for decades (although you can only see the name and possibly contents of the cookie, not its purpose, and therefore can't apply your choice to all sites). It's one of the things lost with the move to Edge.

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#2713701 27-May-2021 12:30

This is an interesting tool:

https://themarkup.org/blacklight

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#2713717 27-May-2021 12:47

Fred99:

This is an interesting tool:

https://themarkup.org/blacklight

So it is! I have now removed some tracking that I didn't know existed from a site that I inherited.

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#2713761 27-May-2021 12:56

Behodar:

Fred99:

This is an interesting tool:

https://themarkup.org/blacklight

So it is! I have now removed some tracking that I didn't know existed from a site that I inherited.

Ah - but the worst sites on the internet - the ones that are habitual but "free" - that's what you got for selling your soul - they redirect to their mobile site, then show nothing much at all. I sense that this tool may have upset them a bit. It worked a while ago - but no more.

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#2713764 27-May-2021 13:05

openmedia:
Some UK/EU sites are constantly requesting me to approve all of their cookies.

F'ing StackOverflow that comes up as the default response in a large majority of tech info search results, there's a permanent giant cookie banner floating over a chunk of the screen, bottom left, that can't be removed or disabled unless you turn on a pile of JS to get rid of it and then turn it all off again to get rid of the other JS junk on the site.