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The cookie dilemma (feddit.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Malicious compliance writ large.

Also, the number of hurdles you have to clear for this tells volumes about where the site owner priorities lie.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Hence why the EU is now forcing an "easy way to decline". All compliant websites have a "reject all cookies" button now.

    Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.

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  • [+] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I believe they were allowing anyone who paid them money to not be blocked.

    Hmmm... Must've been a long while ago. I've been using them for... 3? 4? years and never had any ads getting through.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Don't use Ghostery anymore

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Why?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Check the Wikipedia page on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Breach of trust and owned by a for profit company.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Breach of trust

    By a different company. Owners changed in 2017.

    owned by a for profit company

    Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.

    Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.

    And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    No need to get defensive. I do use bad products, but it's important to try to find the least bad and avoid rewarding bad actors.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    No need to get defensive

    Who's defensive...?

    I do use bad products

    Umm... Good for you! (?) Not sure why you decided to share that, though.

    but it’s important to try to find the least bad and avoid rewarding bad actors.

    I agree! How about rewarding a redemption arc, where a bad actor changes management and becomes a "good actor"? (that was the original question, btw)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well that was a weird rhetorical question.

    Redemption arcs are for people, not for companies. And even them, how would I know they've become a good actor? It's really hard to be sure that a software is not doing something bad. Trust in software should be really, really hard to acquire.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Redemption arcs are for people, not for companies

    So, how are you browsing the Internet?

    Can't use Chromium (Google), can't use Safari (Apple).

    Can't use Mozilla after their "bad actor" behaviour with telemetry and Pocket integration (not to mention the fact that they're literally on Google's payroll). Can't use Servo (originally made by Mozilla), can't use Ladybird (main dev is a fascist).

    Are you posting this through telepathic transmission, or are you just a hypocrite?

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