Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else get really fed up of going to a web page to look at something only to be confronted by a big page about cookies and whether you want them or not? Some pages have these options at the bottom and I can have a quick scan to see if the article is what I want, but so often it's across the whole page and I hav to go through reams of crap only to find that its not what I wanted. I wish more sites would have a reject all cookies option as it's first option rather than having it hidden away somewhere at the bottom of the page of options. I dislike it so much that I often just ignore the page entirely and find something more user friendly thats actually going to tell me what I want to know rather than give me all this faff. Why do they all assume that we want them following us about the place, why not just be able to bookmark the site or something if it's something we're going to use often?
TheCatWoman said:I wish more sites would have a reject all cookies option
You can do this through a technical step that you may want someone to help you with (I recall you are not the biggest fan of tech). In effect it is something called an Add-In to your web browser (I think you said you use Firefox) called Consent-O-Matic which will automatically reject cookie requests from any website.
It is free which helps.
Adding it can be done in a few steps and takes about 2 mins from what I have seen.
There is a good article about the origins of the cookie consent prompts and how many companies now ignore your choice or trick you into approving them using something called "datk patterns". The lack of enforcement of the GDPR regulations that led to the prompts means the companies can ignore it with impunity.
The article is https://www.wired.com/story/avoid-cookie-popups-gdpr/
The browser companies are steadily working to kill the need for cookies though which is refreshing.
Thanks Iain, My DiL is cominbg at the weekend so I might ask her for help, although none of my family are very good at helping me with computer stuff. The trouble with asking people to do something for me, is they start asking questions that I don't understand and asking why I want to do something, as I can't answer their questions to their satisfaction, nothing gets done.
Thanks for the link, I doubt if I'll follow it as I didn't understand what you writing about in your second paragraph, so I doubt if I'd understand the article.
I only really started this post as a rant, so thanks for being practicle.
TheCatWoman said:although none of my family are very good at helping me with computer stuff.
Show them this reply and they should be able to do it - in fact I think you could do it if you follow it step by step:
In the top right of Firefox, click on the 3 bars and select Add-Ons and Themes:
In the Find More Add-Ons box, type the name consent-o-matic and press enter:
The app should show up at the top of the list looking like this. Click on it:
Click on the blue box that says Add To Firefox:
You wil then get a box pop up on the top right asking you to enable it. Check this box and click on Okay:
That should do the trick - see how often the boxes now appear asking about cookies.
I will ask her, I think it's more a lack of willingness to help than an inability with computers, thanks