Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!I recently discovered that I can set my browser to 'Session only' cookies as default permission; and then whitelist the websites that I want to be able to persist cookies.
It hasn't quite sunk in yet, because I still go through the rigmarole you describe...
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I recently discovered that I can set my browser to 'Session only' cookies as default permission; and then whitelist the websites that I want to be able to persist cookies.
It hasn't quite sunk in yet, because I still go through the rigmarole you describe...
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike same. But if I care that much I treat it like a paywall and copy the link to read the archived version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike and how do we know if reject all even work?
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@mike and how do we know if reject all even work?
@antdude Indeed. Maybe it's time to treat all websites as hostile until demonstrated otherwise.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!when i'm in a good mood, i don't even click *Deny*, instead i open ublock, select the cookie pop-up section with the little color-picker and create a new rule
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike I do hit Safari's *reader mode* button in between. Sometimes it extracts the article body fine despite the original remaining partially occluded by the complicated preferences.
If that does work, I'll set reader mode as the default for this website and be unbothered by its popups.
If that doesn't work, I'll close the tab, exactly as you describe.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike For years, (by my approximate sense of it) I'm glad to see more Reject all unnecesay as an option ... but I wonder if it just flips off one of many switches (which I never know having not seen the settings); I also wonder how liberally they judge "necessary" ... I hear they have trawlers that poke at websites routinely but it must be hard to automate that.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike Miss out on a lot of articles because of this but it is their loss.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike I do!
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!Paywalls kill websites. Paywalls kill journalism. Not respecting privacy kills websites and journalism. Not respecting adblockers and opt outs kills websites and journalism.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike Count on me. Thank you for sharing.
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@talexb The next step is to delete Facebook itself
@mike Yes, there is that option .. but in this year of our Lord 2026, FB is the way I stay in touch with a lot of my friends.
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@mike Yes, there is that option .. but in this year of our Lord 2026, FB is the way I stay in touch with a lot of my friends.
@talexb I get that, it's a real problem. I just recently managed to move all my family to WhatsApp. Which is not great, but less bad.
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@mike @jokeyrhyme there were mentions/news last year, that things (regulation-wise) will be simplified - for end-users that is I'm not sure where/how that ended though.
Btw, I'm aware that's not the solution to malicious compliance, but Consent-o-matic add-on usually does the job well.
@gim @mike @jokeyrhyme Can Consent-o-Matic open up and deny 583 cookies, then find and open up the other set hidden below, and deny them as well?
Sometimes I switch browsers to one that deletes everything, every time, then I can click through agreeing everything and they only learn that people who enter the way I did go through the site in the order I did.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike I first try reader mode and when that doesn't work I close the window.
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@pthane There is no such thing.
(Also: doesn't that mean they're admitting all the others are not legitimate?)
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!in some cases I'll go to archive.is or archive.ph and see if there's a screenshot of the article there.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike YEP. No easy way to reject cookies, I reject the article.
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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.
If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.
But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.
I wonder how many others do this.
And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.
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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!@mike
I'm one that press " back" even earlier... Thousands of " selected partners" indicate bulk sales of private data to whoever pay.
