Newb question: what does it really mean when I click “Reject Nonessential Cookies”? Am I really being any more private by rejecting these? Just feels greasy like it’s a workaround for websites to get my information anyway? Should I navigate away from any sites that suggest this cookie configuration?
If you’re a bit pro privacy you should use a browser that reset all the cookies at each closes. So it just doesn’t matter if you refused cookies or not. And you should 100% use Ublock Origin. If think that by default (or with some tweakings) it blocks most of the banners but if you’re not happy with only ublock, I suggest you to try I still don’t care about cookies
As others said, configure your browser to store as few cookies as you can tolerate (because some actually useful stuff will break without them) and forget about these banners.
Although I do enjoy the ones that have actual usable toggles for “legitimate interests” - how nice of them, giving me an option to disable even cookies they can legally store with just a notice, and definitely not just hiding non-essential cookies into a vaguely defined category.
So I always go through the list and disable them one by one. It does nothing but waste my time, but I do it out of spite. Oh, and when I feel like really wasting my time, I send a bug report to whatever support email I can find on the site, about how the cookie banner accidentally let me disable essential cookies and should probably be fixed.
what does it really mean when I click “Reject Nonessential Cookies”?
It means “fuck you, if you use my site, you volunteer your personal data”.
Should I navigate away from any sites that suggest this cookie configuration?
You would have a bad time since that’s pretty much the entirety of the web.
I just set up my browser to block third party cookies, and first party cookies are deleted when I leave the site. The control is in your hands. Then just ignore those cookie preferences entirely. It’s like giving someone permission to come into your home but you don’t unlock the door.
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If you’re a bit pro privacy you should use a browser that reset all the cookies at each closes. So it just doesn’t matter if you refused cookies or not. And you should 100% use Ublock Origin. If think that by default (or with some tweakings) it blocks most of the banners but if you’re not happy with only ublock, I suggest you to try I still don’t care about cookies
Thanks. I currently use hardened Firefox (Arkenfox) and yes I do use unlock.
I think that even if you want to harden your Firefox you should use mullvad browser (or librewolf) and then harden it a bit if you want
I’ve heard of these but haven’t given them a long look. What is it about mullvad or librewolf that people prefer over Firefox?
As others said, configure your browser to store as few cookies as you can tolerate (because some actually useful stuff will break without them) and forget about these banners.
Although I do enjoy the ones that have actual usable toggles for “legitimate interests” - how nice of them, giving me an option to disable even cookies they can legally store with just a notice, and definitely not just hiding non-essential cookies into a vaguely defined category.
So I always go through the list and disable them one by one. It does nothing but waste my time, but I do it out of spite. Oh, and when I feel like really wasting my time, I send a bug report to whatever support email I can find on the site, about how the cookie banner accidentally let me disable essential cookies and should probably be fixed.
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It means “fuck you, if you use my site, you volunteer your personal data”.
You would have a bad time since that’s pretty much the entirety of the web.
I just set up my browser to block third party cookies, and first party cookies are deleted when I leave the site. The control is in your hands. Then just ignore those cookie preferences entirely. It’s like giving someone permission to come into your home but you don’t unlock the door.
See here.
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ and only whitelist web sites that I have accounts on.
Everything is fake crap. They pretend they care or don’t share but they can’t prove it. I assume that they are lying.
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Sites that give this option usually explain more detail about it. I pretty much always reject nonessential, since they tend to be advertising related.