I didn’t read the article but I’m pretty sure reject is the right answer.
Not according to Cookie Monster! He accepts all cookies. Always.
Touché
It’s good enough for me.
Horrendous that this isn’t just a browser setting that can be applied universally. It’s 100% opt out every time.
Ublock Origin has that option!
Where?
Settings, filter list, cookie notices
Well, it could have been but just like
robot.txteveryone ignored the Do-not-track Header in HTTP requests.That’s why I leave this off. Ironically the “Do Not Track” signal is used to more effectively track you.
Similarly, the federal Do Not Call list, used to stop domestic spammers from calling you, is used by international spammers as a source of known active phone numbers to call. Because you need to actively add yourself to the list, so it’s a pretty solid list of active phone numbers. And the list is only enforced domestically, so all of the callers from overseas know they’ll never be prosecuted for using it.
That mistake I did make. God knows no one pays attention to this list, domestic or abroad. I talked to an attorney and he said they have to call you several times for it to be a violation.
tl;dr: “Reject All” will not break the site.
Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The choice is recorded in a consent cookie
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you’ll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don’t break from the rejection.
Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They’ll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.
My browser autodeletes cookies, and blocks cookies popups. Though I have set exceptions for sites, I log in to.
I always wonder if accepting all + blocking 3rd party cookies through browser settings is a sensible choice. One is left with 1st party cookies and a few browser have mechanisms in place to avoid these to be read by non-originating websites…
Blocking all 3rd party cookies tends to break quite a few things, as websites often use different domains to handle things like logins.
I’ve found addons like Cookie Autodelete to be a more functional option, it allows those cookies to exist until I close the tab, and if the domain isn’t on a whitelist, they get deleted five minutes later. And it works for first party cookies too.
It does take a while to build that whitelist, and sometimes you forget to set it and wipe something you’d rather have kept.That’s the thing: I use ISDCAC + block 3rd party and I have literally never experienced breakage.
Any cons to just right-click and block the page element with ublock?
