Yes you can select "ask me every time" just like how browser have a setting for Location/Mic/Camera to auto accept/ask me every time/deny all. This is what should have been done from the beginning but EU is too stupid to realize this.
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Europe Wants to Cut Down on Annoying GDPR Cookie Pop-Ups
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This is long overdue! it's wild that this has persisted for as long as it has. I can understand why some might want to keep it on a site-by-site basis, but at the very least, the notification should be standardized across all sites with one-click options for "decline all", "only necessary", and "accept all". That's it. It really really needs to be standardized. I hate how every site does it differently and how some try to make it difficult to only accept necessary cookies.
While we're at it, please ban those terribly rude popups that get in your face while scrolling down an article, just to ask you to signup for some BS email list or other nonsense that I have no interest in. Those popups are infuriating.
While we're at it, please ban those terribly rude popups that get in your face while scrolling down an article, just to ask you to signup for some BS email list or other nonsense that I have no interest in. Those popups are infuriating.
Some users or their browsers delete (X) the cookie pop-up without answering the question. So what happens then?
Well, in Canada for example - except Quebec -, if a user or his browser doesn't specifically answer "I disagree" to a website's cookie pop-up, it means he agrees. In Quebec, it's the reverse: if a user or his browser doesn't specifically answer "I agree", it means he disagrees.
What? Why are we throwing away the baby with the bathwater!?
Sure, get rid of utterly pointless cookie notices, but why this?
Then you visit outher sites than me. I have the complete opposite experience. Only a tiny proportion of sites I visite give me no choice. Those I then don’t visit and get the info I need from somewhere else.
I don't agree. We all have passwords saved and if you have keychain then it's only a couple of seconds to log in each time.
It's no bother at all compared to a site following you round, collecting data on everything you do until 2036.
While fine in theory many websites try to force you to accept cookies and tracking, and a shocking amount of it, while also messing up ad blockers. The result makes many sites, like DPReview, unusable. So maybe the regulations are absolutely needed, maybe well-intended, but implementation was a bureaucratic mess that stressed honest website owners (and designers;-)), but is by now abused and frayed by the larger ad economy. What the regulations need is not being scaled back (which of course the tech lobbyists are hammering on) but updated. Simpler, stricter, more user-friendly. Going back to a lawless state of internet regulation is not ideal. But of course the war of attrition between a large, politically split and hyper bureaucratic institution and quicker, gains oriented and rich companies wanting to sell targeted data (that spend billions on lobbyin) is one-sided.
If the European Commission institution would be gone tomorrow I wouldn’t miss it.
Bear in mind that at the other end of the scale we have websites that send an authentication code to your phone. So instead of just using a saved password on the Mac, it's click Log In, get up, go into the other room and get the phone, find the right app, then either memorise the code or bring the phone with you, enter the code into the site, then put the phone away again. It annoys me enough at the moment, and it would drive me absolutely bonkers if I had to do it every time.
While a bureaucratic behemoth and besieged by anti democratic forces even from within its own system, the EU, formed to protect peace and prosperity in the devastated Eurozone, is an important idea that is living proof of American soft power politics post WW2, resulting in the longest period of semi stable peace and economic growth and a strong transatlantic cooperation. This is no small thing. And every big system has a set of annoying bugs and problems. Abolishing the EU due to demagoguery has thrown the UK into a senseless economic crisis while solving none of the problems the Brexiteers promised the split would solve. This on an European scale (plus the TradeWar shenanigans of the US) would turn the world economy into an even worse downward spiral, weakening democracy.
No it’s not. If you leave the implementation up to the website owner, the shady ones will always find ways around it.
By implementing it in the browser, website owners cannot use shameful tactics to trick people into allowing them to be tracked and profiled. They get unambiguous data directly from a browser API.
Also it’s just a terrible experience being asked your preferences for every single website (every single week if you use Safari).
Cookies are an essential part of the login process. Without them there would be no ability to log in. After you log in, a cookie is stored with a session ID and that gets sent to the server on every subsequent request (until the cookie expires and you are logged out).
The website needs a way to identify you and confirm that you authenticated yourself and cookies are how it is done.
Would it be better to have some sort of dedicated browser-based session authentication protocol instead? Sure. But that doesn’t exist yet and given that just about every website in existence would have to reimplement their login system in that case, it will never happen.
So the best solution is strict control of cookies and how they can be used.
Happened to me too, and it seems to be this article in particular. Every other page on Macrumours works fine.
Agreed. Hopefully the EU parliament will reject this proposal from the Commission.
Eh, I think 95% of websites actually have "Click accept or click this other button, which will present either a confusing list of toggles or another button to access a confusing list of obtusely-named toggles that you can turn off some of, and then an additional button that ignores whatever the toggles say and just accepts all anyway but is worded to imply the exact opposite."