• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Who the fuck is upvoting this

    People with consumer rights

    It’s a requirement in the EU to be able to refuse all cookies within a couple of clicks. This website should either not load in the EU, or have a “refuse” button

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      I guess I can buy the idea that they’re breaking the letter of the EU law, but isn’t the EU cookie law widely acknowledged to be a fairly silly attempt to protect users’ privacy in terms of the reality of its implementation? Maybe I am wrong about that and there is a substantive benefit to allowing users to ask the web site to reject all cookies, that’s just my impression.

      The point that I’m making is that their policy seems like it’s actually constructed to protect its users’ privacy, which makes it an outlier in the positive direction and makes criticism of it on this basis come off and weird and mean-spirited and not accurate.

      By way of contrasting example, I picked a random other story which you’d commented on recently without feeling the need to call them cunty, and saw this notice when it’s accessed from the EU:

      Your Privacy Rights Penske Media Corporation (PMC) uses first and third-party technologies to enable PMC and third-parties to collect information about you and your interactions with our sites and services (including clicks, cursor movements and screen recordings). Learn more HERE. By continuing to use our sites or services, you agree to our Terms of Use (including the class action waiver and arbitration provisions) and Privacy Policy, which have recently changed.

      … which sounds a lot more status-quo to how most modern web sites behave than does LGF’s notice.

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          Where? Totally separate from tracking your mouse clicks and browser fingerprint and whatever and reserving the right to sell it to third parties being a way bigger privacy violation than having no way to refuse site-operational cookies, I also don’t see any “reject all” button.

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            7 months ago

            Definitely has the “reject all” button for me

            Have you checked your consumer rights? 😂

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                7 months ago

                Seems like a jest about whether you live in EU or not.

                If you’re not in EU and are not seeing a huge reject all button, it probably means that they are serving you a worse cookie popup because of location.

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                  IDK; I tried it from VPN from Europe was what I meant by “when it’s accessed from the EU.” I honestly have no explanation why I didn’t see the prompt; my best guess is that either the geolocation or VPN fucked up, or that my adblocker removed a unified package that also included the prompt.

                  To search for ad settings I tried clicking AdChoices from the bottom navigation (from Europe) and it took me to a page that lectured me about how I should turn off my third-party cookie blocking, and when I tried from a different browser it succeeded (without having prompted me about cookies) and then announced that I had the opportunity to customize my ads experience from 111 different companies:

                  • 33Across
                  • AcuityAds
                  • Adbrain
                  • Adelphic
                  • Adform
                  • AdGear Technologies
                  • Adobe Marketing Cloud - Advertising Services
                  • Adstra
                  • Alphonso
                  • Amazon Ad System
                  • Amobee
                  • Audiencerate
                  • AuDigent

                  … and so on. I was also entertained by its summary of privacy policy within the State of California (“If you would like to opt out of the sale of this information, please complete this webform or call our automated line at (877) 365-3500.”)

                  I stand by my assessment of relative cuntiness of Variety compared with LGF saying hey we don’t sell your info but we do Google Ads, here’s how to disable their tracking of you if you want, fuck EU’s cookie laws and their weird little dialog box, have a good one.

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                    7 months ago

                    I tried that website as well, ublock origin just blocked the pop-up for me. Definitely a big reject all button once it shows up though.

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        The EU’s privacy laws don’t require a cookie dialog. It’d be legal and a way better user experience to make tracking opt-in and move the setting to some configuration menu somewhere else.