Keep seeing this message for the last few months now and I have to click on something to accept. Is there some setting I can change to automatically accept it so I don't have to manually click every time I go to a website?
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There was a big privacy law in the EU that requires users to opt in to tracking cookies, I see it on a ton of news sites now.
Yeah, Im pretty sure the only reason the "opt in" is there is for the user to give the ok to track you and/or sell your personal information.
If they weren't going to track you or sell it wont appear (I think)
I say this because if you go into the options, you can deselect "tracking" and selling your information cookies.
Many times if you select options at that point it automatically deselects them for you, then you click ok.
This is only for the EU. In the USA they can do whatever they want compared to the EU that is always hammering away at the companies selling your information. Some of this bleeds over to the USA even though the USA doesnt have these laws to protect you.
(this is my impression of how it works)
I've agreed to dozens of those and still yet to receive any cookies. I wasn't even given the option of chocolate chip or macadamia nut.
I generally look at the options and de-select all but the essentials.
Yes, there have been several cookie lawsuits so now you have to opt in.
I understand that but with thousands of features on Windows or the browser, there must be some setting that will do that for you automatically. Like the setting that remembers your username and password so you don't have to manually enter it everytime it's asked here.
^ What I do is fire up Adblock Plus, element hiding helper and select that cookie popup to block, then instead of having it done per site, I make it global. Eventually, this results in more and more (new sites I visit) having that cookie popup blocked without ever seeing it the first time... especially if you make most of the block string wildcards except for "cookie".
Then there are browser add-ons to automate just cookie notices, for example this or see the other "related" at the bottom of the page:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ker/odhmfmnoejhihkmfebnolljiibpnednn?hl=en-GB
Then there are browser add-ons to automate just cookie notices, for example this or see the other "related" at the bottom of the page:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ker/odhmfmnoejhihkmfebnolljiibpnednn?hl=en-GB
Will have to look into that, thanks.
It's a result, essentially, of the EU law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is becoming standard practice even if a site's hosting location does not fall under the purview of this law.
Cookies can serve myriad purposes; most of which have to do with convenience for the user. Others are nefarious. Either way, the notices should be one-time only (ironically, they'll appear again if you clear your cookies in your browser and then visit the site again "for the first time") and are invoked via javascript, and can therefore be blocked.
Cookies can serve myriad purposes; most of which have to do with convenience for the user. Others are nefarious. Either way, the notices should be one-time only (ironically, they'll appear again if you clear your cookies in your browser and then visit the site again "for the first time") and are invoked via javascript, and can therefore be blocked.
The on screen ask and control is not consistent for cookies so harder to make a setting for your OS to fill in. It is easy with passwords because it is a specific control type to hide the password. I am a web application architect.
I never agree to the options for cookies. Also have the do not track setting selected, and a few other options I can't remember. The majority of the cookies questions I receive are on small news sites that you are directed to by selecting a story to read.
I've had a few other sites do it, but the majority have been news sites.
I've had a few other sites do it, but the majority have been news sites.
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