They are never geo-filtered either so everyone is forced to see them.
I’m usually a big advocate for privacy and this was obviously done with good intentions but there were so many better ways to do it and I doubt 99% of people do anything but click okay without reading it.
At least if the browsers did it the UI would be standardized and you could have default persistent settings.
Now that there has been a massive effort to implement it I doubt it will ever get fixed or go away. Even though the decline of supercookies and Firefox’s new 3rd party policy has largely made it obsolete.
No we can't. We can think of scummy adtech companies who feel entitled to their business model.
The GDPR very specifically says that the option to decline tracking must be at least as easily accessible as the option to accept.
The only way the EU is to blame for the pop-ups is that the regulation hasn't been enforced strictly enough.
I don't understand this line of thinking. You are declining the cookies, so obviously you prefer not to be tracked. And it's obvious that it's not the EU who made the varying, annoying, and often purposely misleading dialog boxes to decline the cookies, but the companies who want to force their tracking on you. Without the EU law, they would just do it without asking for permission. So why blame the EU?
I've never heard anybody who wasn't in or adjacent to the tech surveillance industry complain about this.
https://oblador.github.io/hush/
You're welcome!
I couldn't care less about web fonts though. I'm not downloading them from Google or "bunny.net" or anywhere else. My computer has some of the nicest-looking fonts around as system defaults, and websites can either work with that or get put into reader mode.
Enacting legislation is one thing. Somalia is excellent at enacting gun control legislation.
