Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Aral Balkan@mastodon.ar.al · 5 months ago

Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

fedilink · 5 months ago

The “cookies” thing is a red herring.
Two observations:

Most sites have already set cookies before the pop-up. After it, they set at least one more.
The cookies themselves are fairly harmless. The harm comes from the 3rd-party objects that many web pages pull in. google analytics, google fonts, facebook icons etc. I’ve even found banking web pages that access google even though (or before) you decline.

grue@lemmy.world · edit-2 5 months ago

I can’t remember if the latest recommendation is that using LocalCDN or Decentraleyes is good because it blocks those CDNs from tracking you, or bad because it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.