A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with “848 of our partners” and “actively scan device details for identification”.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    381·
    4 months ago

    The most effective solution is just to wipe all cookies every time you close your browser, or creating strict cookie whitelists. Actually managing cookies on webpages is for normies.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      9·
      4 months ago

      and then every time you visit that one good news site, you have to go through their cookie banner each time. That or install a cookie-denying addon and hope that they don’t sellout or sell your data.

      • davidagain@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 months ago

        You have a total of four choices:

        1a. Wipe all their cookies every time, reject them every time they ask.
        1b. Wipe all their cookies every time, accept them every time they ask. 2a. Don’t wipe cookies, keep the “essential” ones. 2b. Don’t wipe cookies, accept all our most of them.

        2b is the only scenario where you might not get asked again. 1b is the easiest no thanks.

        I use the duck duck go browser because it makes that the default and offers to whitelist sites for cookies if you log into them (but you can turn that off in settings). It also autorejects a lot of cookies that use common popups.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          5·
          4 months ago

          2a seems the most rational, no?

          Also maybe switch to mullvad-browser instead of DDG browser, since DDG has some controversies (search: “Zach Edwards” on the wiki) on what data it saves.

          • davidagain@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            Thank you. Where can I find the wiki?

            Edit: Wired says

            DuckDuckGo Created a Privacy Exception for Microsoft Cybersecurity and privacy researcher Zach Edwards discovered a glaring hole in the privacy protections of DuckDuckGo’s purportedly privacy-focused browser: By examining the browser’s data flows on Facebook-owned website Workplace.com, Edwards found that the site’s Microsoft-placed tracking scripts continued to communicate back to Microsoft-owned domains like Bing and LinkedIn. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg responded to Edwards on Twitter, admitting that “our search syndication agreement prevents us from stopping Microsoft-owned scripts from loading”—essentially admitting that a partnership deal DuckDuckGo struck with Microsoft includes creating a carveout that lets Microsoft track users of its browsers. Weinberg added that DuckDuckGo is “working to change that.” (A company spokesperson reiterated in an email to WIRED Weinberg’s assertion that none of this applies to DuckDuckGo search, adding that both its search and its browser offer more privacy protections than the competition.) In the meantime, the revelation blew a glaring hole of its own in the company’s reputation as a rare privacy-preserving tech firm. Turns out this surveillance capitalism thing is pretty hard to escape.

    • Nobilmantis@feddit.it
      3·
      4 months ago

      Sadly that is not an option for firefox on android yet (while it is on desktop), the only choises you are left with are:

      • Use ff focus that completely resets the browser deleting every cookie in the process
      • Use normal ff and:
      1. Just accept that you have to deal with cookies and care to carefully select Reject on every banner
      2. Turn on delete data on “exit button press” (which sadly deletes everything again, with no possibility to whitelist some websites).

      That said, i believe Firefox should have (even on android) their “total cookie protection” thing which puts them in separate containers for each domain, so you are somewhat protected by cookie cross-tracking, but i would still prefer to delete most of them at close.