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submitted 1 year ago by Anticorp@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won't let people say "no" to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new "features", only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They'll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I realize that my frustration may be a little over-zealous, but we deal with these interfaces dozens of times per day and this is user hostile behavior. There isn't really an option to just use another service or program, since the entire technology landscape has been commandeered by a few major corporations, and they all enact the same shitty things as a group.

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

It's just like those stupid GDPR cookie popups. They're all different, and I can't think of anyone who would ever want to select some cookies and not others, people either are okay with it or they want none of them, yet few sites offer a "no to all" option, and most push the boundaries of what's allowed under the law.

At least this popup usually isn't there the next time I visit, but there's just so many sites that I keep getting them multiple times a day, so it feels just like what you're talking about.

[-] letraset@feddit.dk 25 points 1 year ago

I use Consent-O-Matic to automatically select "Reject all". It's an extension for both Firefox and Chrome, and I highly recommend it.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

[-] solifugo@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Just so people are aware, this can make some pages misbehave, specially shopping, so make sure you add them to some "ignore list" like you do with your ad-blocker

[-] letraset@feddit.dk 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, thank you for adding that aspect. In general it behaves fantastically, but if a site misbehaves, you can disable it for specific sites by clicking the extension when on the page, and unticking the only box there.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

and most push the boundaries of what's allowed under the law.

I worked for a company that wanted me to load all of their analytics stuff, which drops a shit ton of cookies, before the GDPR consent. I told them that is illegal in the EU and they said the legal department already approved it. I'm not an attorney or a GDPR expert, but it seemed to me that the big companies have already found loopholes around GDPR to get the data that they want. I don't work there anymore.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

How about using the cookie auto delete plugin? Once I leave the site, those fishy files are also gone.

[-] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lmao. Even after disabling toggles, they got choices like:

  • Save my preferences (grayed out) - as much invisible as possible
  • Accept (bigger and in blue background) - feels like it will accept based on my choices
[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That asshole design works on me tho. I misclicked a couple of times and thus "consented" to the tracking. Should be illegal imo.

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