More and more sites I visit after reading a suggestion in a paper or on line article as do I want cookies. I always select no, or reject. Some sites will not let you in unless you agree. Other offer a option to look at who they are collecting data for as in Partners, you can go down the list of several hundred, occasionall at the very bottom it says reject all, others you have to unselect each one in turn.
But of course you can just say yes of do it to me, which I suspect many do by default.
So my question
Do you accept or reject
Do you do the list and reject
But then have you ever checked to see if they do it anywayâŚ
Some sites I dont mind as its a subject i am interested in following at least for a period, others when I get there I just close the site and go no further. Some I may want the info offered so reject if I can.
I typically just accept. Some sites I trust less than nothing, so I decline if possible. Sometimes I choose a little X to close the little popup asking for permission. That probably just says âyes to allâ.
As I donât visit âdarkâ sites, I just usually accept, as I know cookies are there to make things work.
For example without storing cookies your browser cannot remember wether you already visited a link, or cannot store session properties on which the server sends information to you (e.g. logged in state).
So AFAIK cookies are a technical necessity.
But they can also be abused to track your activity, and what you see annoys me too⌠Itâs a legal requirement for the sites to make you agree / disagree on cookies, and that question is there for legal purpose.
You can deny cookies, then the site will work only to a level it can work without cookies.
In the past cookies were just used without asking you -and me- first.
I just accept them - I visit far too many sites and usually have about 20+ tabs (sometimes 30 or more!) open (in Brave) and I canât be arsed having to repeat myselfâŚ
Some petitions I want to sign wonât display 'cause Brave tells me the cookie is disabled - itâs annoying - but I just donât bother signing the petition⌠HmmmâŚ
I agree, there was and idea that google would stop using cookies so forcing sites to remove them, but not sure how far that progressed.
A few days ago I was looking for sound systems for our association now I am inundated with publicity for one mark, as a result dont think I am going to buy from them, small protest which they will never notice but I feel better voting with my money elsewhere.
I usually accept the cookies just to dismiss the stupid pop over thatâs getting in the way of what Iâm interested in reading! I also try to clear my cookies once a week ideally but in practice itâs more like once a month.
About a week ago, I started using PopUpOff after I seen it on Mozillaâs recommended extensions list. It helps quite a bit with the annoying cookie consents.
I would imagine so, way to tell is clear it in firefox and then look again see whats left. But dont kill anything left sometimes things are in a strange place by default.
I just noticed PopUpOff intermittently blocks the reply box popup here. Iâll have to dive into the docs later. There doesnât seem to have a per domain whitelist.
Iâve always used Bleach Bit (itsâ been in Ubuntuâs repo forever). It has a CLI for scripting/crons.
I am with howard on this, just tried to reject by scrolling down page after page of yes or no to cookies from everyone and there brother⌠and then though, why bother, dont know if rejecting would make a difference or not.
Just read dan the mans reply and suggestion on bleachbit, not a tool i have used, but perhaps that would answer my other question on erasing disks before recycling âŚ