• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They’re lying. They are such awful people that they forced some engineer to make a fake progress tracker, and introduce a timeout to the script to waste your time for opting out. My guess is that they’re hoping next time they “forget” your preferences and present you with the same choice, you’ll decide not to waste time with the opt out and just accept everything. Scumbag managers.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Oh yeah those cookie prompts are like mini-games to access the content. Some on them, you can’t even win!

  • tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think they’re allowed to do these fake loading screens in the EU

    PS: in the settings of uBlock Origin, you can select a cookie banner blocker. This gets rid of 99.99% of cookie banners ✨ (there’re also options against newsletter boxes).
    9 of 10 hacker kittens recommend this 🌸😸

    • azalty@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      Yea but from time to time, it’ll just break the entire site. I had a case where for some reason one of the ublock filters removed divs named “privacy” so the whole privacy policy page dissapeared. Happened on a website I was developing and didn’t understand what was happening.

      I think I had this happen on tuta’s website as well

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      There’s loads of cookie-related things that aren’t allowed in the EU, it’s a shame nobody really seems to be doing anything about it. I still see non-compliant cookie consent screens all the time here, even on bigger, more well-known websites.