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Alternatively, there’s this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ (works on android)
GDPR says you shouldn’t get a single cookie until you click the consent button. Try this: clear all cookies for a web site that has one of these banners, refresh the page and let it finish loading, and then see how many cookies you have for it before you consent to any.
*third-party
Depends on the purpose of the cookie.
I love being able to build my own site that works like a motherfucking website. This example is even simpler, but in general, unless I am actively adding products to a cart, your website shouldn’t do jack but display media. Tired of all this modern web shit that attacks you every time you open a page.
Looking at you,
every news site in existence“Good design is as little design as possible.”
- some German motherfuckerWhat’s so refreshing about motherfucking website is that I feel no need to activate ”reader mode” just to make the site bearable. Basic HTML is perfect as it is.
I built my own blog that way. All static generated, no JavaScript, no cookies, just enough CSS to get a nice dark mode look. Loads in 0.3 seconds on a modern connection, or around 10 seconds if you’re on a shitty 2G connection. 370KB load, and about 270KB of that is a picture on a post that could be slimmed down if it used something more modern than jpeg compression.
Holy crap, motherfucking website is beast! I love how simple and straight forward it is. Reminds me of the 90s before ad placement took over the entire internet.
This is my new favorite website, thank you
IMO, the original is the best one. I think all variations are just over designed. HTML default settings aren’t that bad.
Na, dark mode rules, the best o e was thebestmotherfuckingwebsite, it even had colors
Oh my beloved motherfucking website author, I do in fact remember when websites were good, it was about 15 or 20 years ago… Sob (maybe more depending on who you ask)
In America cookies are called cookies but all other biscuits are also called cookies. In Australia lollipops are called lollies but all other kinds of sweets are also called lollies. I don’t really know where I’m going with this.
I don’t either, but in America biscuits are savory or near flavorless, not sweet like cookies.
They need to get better biscuits then!
What British people call biscuits are called cookies in America. American biscuits are more like what British people call scones
But a cookie is still a cookie - e.g. the one in the meme. That bit is universal.
Yes, ours are all limp.
Tell me what you’re gonna do now.
Sweet is not inherently better than savory. Some of us think it’s worse.
I do be wondering what a British person would call a Southern style US biscuit… Which is sweet (they’re usually glazed with honey), but still not like a cookie.
Not usually glazed with honey, but sometimes (and it’s good too). Most are buttery flaky goodness you cover with sausage gravy or cut in half to sandwich a slice of cheddar.
The key when making them is not to crush your butter too much with your fork.
I think they are closest to a scone. There’s a YouTube series I can’t recall the name of that has British teens try American foods. One of the ones they did was biscuits and gravy. The Brits were mostly in shock at how good it was.
We’re pretty obsessed with gravy tbh. Never had a savoury scone but expect it must be a similar vibe to dumplings in a stew.
In Australia KFC automatically comes with a crappy little bread bun called a dinner roll and I don’t see the appeal.
I’ve never met someone that actually wanted that little roll and I’m not sure I’d trust someone that did. Begrudgingly eat with apathy? Sure that’s fine. But actively want it? Nah.
English as a language was seen as too easy. So we decided to mix it up.
Why would you ever be the global language of trade and commerce and the go between for multiple nations, whose entire structure is a hodgepodge of latin, Germanic, and mistranslated root structures and made up rules, if you didn’t decide to mix it up from time to time and region to region?
Embrace the bastard language standard. This is the way.
… Are you aware that ‘loli’, pronounced the same as ‘lollie’… is art (usually drawn) that depicts sexualized or nude children, and … fans of, or viewers of loli… are called lolis?
I am reasonably confident this is widespread internet terminology across the entire English speaking internet at this point, but you being Australian and… possibly not being aware of this… makes me question that assumption somewhat.
That or perhaps you’re older than me?
… Uh, anyway, in America we have ‘fries’ or ‘french fries’, but seemingly every other English speaking country calls them ‘chips’.
Which is confusing to the hungry, overweight, American brain, because what we call chips, ya’ll tend to call ‘crisps’.
But at the same time, we can’t even agree on whether or not a sugary, carbonated beverage is called soda, pop, or just coke, used to refer to all soft drinks, not just coca cola.
in America we have […] ‘french fries’
And they aren’t even french, they’re belgian.
Yep.
The contentious but somewhat agreed upon story of how this happened is roughly: US troops discover ‘fries’ in restaurants in Belgium, after WW1, but in an area of Belgium with mostly French speakers.
Americans appreciate alliteration, and don’t care so much for actual accuracy, so… ‘French Fries’.
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This is bizarrely off-topic.
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That is not how “loli” is pronounced–it’s short for “Lolita”, with a long “O” sound.
1: How is talking about weird quirks of English vocabulary that differ regionally and among different groups of people… off topic?
2: Many people online pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of different pronounciations of the ‘o’… at least in part because there is much regional variation in the US as to how all vowels are pronounced in just all words.
Some pronounce it with the same sound as ‘low’, the long o. Other pronounce it as ‘lawl’, others pronounce it as ‘lahl’, the way uh… Data’s sort of android adopted daughter’s name is pronounced in TNG.
I have heard Brits, Aussies and Kiwis pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of vowel sound variations as well.
Pronouncing it the same as in ‘lolipop’ is a very common pronounciation, amongst many different regional English dialects.
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are they called biscuits for co.uk sites?
When you disable saving cookies in your browser, you’ll get this all the time. YouTube is the worst offender, because it takes ages to load (not because of internet).
Reject all.
Meme is true, sure, but that cookie looks effin delicious
I don’t think you understand what a dark pattern is.
Isn’t it when ui/ux uses deceptive practices to confuse the user into doing something?
Yes. It’s when the UI leads YOU to do the thing you don’t want. So unless the banner telling you that the site uses cookies is doing something to make you accept them when you don’t want to accept them (such as by not having a button to not accept them visible) having cookies itself isn’t a dark pattern.
This is… exactly what most sites do with their consent banners.
Most sites I’ve visited since they had to disclose their use of cookies have clearly visible “accept all” and “reject all” buttons, along with a “more information” button that often lets you configure what cookies you want and what you don’t.
You must be visiting much more upstanding sites than I do! 😆
For those still curious, here’s an article with some examples of dark patterns.
Given that cookies are just one of many ways you can be tracked on the web, isn’t the who cookie banner thing kind of pointless to begin with? You can be identified by the fonts on your system, browser size, add-ons, and canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, screen resolution, time zone offset, hardware specs, what peripherals are plugged-in… It goes on and on.
We don’t need tracking cookie banners, we need tracking everything banners.
Cookies are not inherently bad. How do you think identity and access management (logging into websites, etc) work?
Easy fix: Don’t. I’ll open KeepAssXC and manage my own access tyvm.
Sure. But why does a website want to place a cookie when there is no IAM involved like news sites, blogs? For ad Tracking!
Blame the EU. There, cookies used to bother a tiny number of “privacy advocates” who were already perfectly capable of blocking the cookies in their own browsers but they weren’t happy because no one else cared about cookies so they got the GDPR passed to bother everyone in the world.
Not the EU’s fault that all those websites want to invade your privacy.
The EU only demanded consent. That all those websites care more about marketing than about their users says more about those websites than it does the law.
The EU only demanded consent.
As in the meme…
Me: I consent (to load the website using the cookie settings already in my browser).
Website: I consent.
Privacy busybodies and EU regulators: I don’t.
Any chance you are English, Polish or Hungarian?
I do find it funny when such a person makes complaints that the “keep me logged in” option never works for them, tho.
