Have you ever tried not pressing “Agree” on the cookie consent, at PC Gamer?
It seems impossible - the dialog pops out every single page surfed, regardless.
For example, if you press “More Options -> Save & Exit”.
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Im pretty sure I just blocked all cookies every where and called it a day. They dont really do anything useful anywhere I go. Fuck it.
They’re pretty good for staying logged in
PC Gamer also hijacks your back button to show you suggested content when you try to leave. Trash website.
Every website I encounter that does that gets blocked from my Google Discover feed. I haven’t managed to be so thorough with my Lemmy link blacklist yet.
Google? Really?
Yep. It’s currently the lowest friction news feed I have that can be tailored to my preferences.
has yours started pushing ads? i didnt have them for years, and now every 5th article is an ad.
First ad comes after the 10th article, then ad, then 5 articles between every remaining ad.
Tom’s Hardware has started doing this too. It’s positively user-hostile.
Get Consent-o-mattic for your browser and it will actively decline those popups for you.
Holy smokes! Thank you very much for mentioning it, dear @slazer2au@lemmy.world ! Since, I try not installing addons that are not published open-sourced, but this one is! ✨
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don’t perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.
The first version of this add-on works with 4 popular pop-ups: Cookiebot, OneTrust, QuantCast, and TrustArc. The add-on is open source, so anyone can add additional pop-ups through our template system: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic.
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Just block javascript with uBlock Origin for that site to make it go away.
Can’t remember for PC Gamer, but when popups pester more than help, I hide them with Ublock Origin, or simply disable JavaScript for the domain.
I have no idea how these cookie consent things became the responsibility of the websites instead of the web browser handling it lol
I get the complaint, but if you don’t accept any cookies then they can’t remember that you refuse to accept cookies. It’s a catch-22
I think technical cookies are allowed, and this is just ‘asshole design’
Of course, thank you, and I do realize that, but:
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I tried selecting sections that where not associated with othe vendors - same result;
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Shouldn’t it still be allowed to store cookies for the same vendor/domain, without any consent, by default.
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There are other means/API than cookies to store consent state in common browsers, including: LocalStorage, IndexedDB, SessionStorage, CacheStorage etc.
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