* on the Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:32:15AM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: >>>> Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few >>>> other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying >>>> popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree >>>> to this' ? What new legal groupthink bs is behind this? >>> It has to do with some law in the EU[1] that apparently isn't >>> enforced[2] (at least in the UK). It is actually a few years old. >> Myself and a few other people have been slowly building an Adblock >> filter list to remove these cookie warnings from sites for about 2 >> years now: >> > That's good, but how will blocking the "cookies required" pop ups or > redirected page notices help, when many sites largely *won't work,* > unless cookies are allowed (at least, 1st party)?
It doesn't help in that regard, and doesn't claim to. > I've encountered quite a few sites (not 100's) where pages won't even > load until session / temp cookies are allowed. 3rd party cookies are > blocked. > > Generally, I delete these 1st party cookies as soon as the page / tab is > closed - which is kind of a pain. If these 1st party cookies (used > today) were not deleted, not sure they'd pose any privacy threat, like > 3rd party cookies. That can be entirely automated: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/ Deletes the cookies and local storage that a site created when you close the tab. -- Mike Cardwell https://grepular.com https://emailprivacytester.com OpenPGP Key 35BC AF1D 3AA2 1F84 3DC3 B0CF 70A5 F512 0018 461F XMPP OTR Key 8924 B06A 7917 AAF3 DBB1 BF1B 295C 3C78 3EF1 46B4
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