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This is not a generational thing. Trying to make it a generational thing is meant to cause divide and deviate discussions about privacy away from the real culprits. Tech megacorporations. Users cannot be held liable for failing to fight indoctrination and propaganda. The proper answer is compassion, education and advocacy. Infighting and arguing only empowers the oppressor. Don’t play into their hands by making it a generational thing.
Or it’s about money.
people like money and they will do whatever it takes to get it. regardless of generation.
There’s no need to turn everything into a genration war. Computer literacy and a sense for maintaining privacy comes and goes with different groups of people depending on their upbringing. The ones who cared about their privacy to the point that they would refuse cookies on every site are definitely not the ones who roll over and let the AI agents access all of their data. A lack of good education and deliberate influence of the advertisement and tech industry has led us to this point and snarky flamebait on twitter isn’t getting us anywhere.
Which generation refused cookies?
I feel like most look at me like I’m crazy, regardless of age, when I deny/only accept the functional cookies on sites every single visit.When the Financial Times published the article, “This Bug in Your PC is a Smart Cookie” on 12 February 1996 I remember quite a lot of people getting upset about it. At the time most were on dialup so you had a different IP assigned every time you connected so the idea you were being tracked in any way was a shock.
Yeah, I don’t think the two groups of people named in this post have much overlap. They seem pretty distinct to me as well
https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic can help with some of that.
Should be denying all. I refuse to use websites that say there are “functional” or “required” cookies. That’s bullshit. Also use extension that block and/or scrub cookies.
Some cookies are useful, like the ones keeping you logged in. Not all cookies are created with the sole purpose of tracking you.
And no law on the planet requires a notification for those kinds of cookies.
No, but if they have other cookies, the options range between “yes” and “only essential”. The popup is for the other ones, but it also notifies you that you won’t get zero, which they kinda do need to say if the popup shows up.
Apart from keeping you logged in, like the other commenter mentioned, cookies can for example be used to save the theme you are using (light/dark) or the language you picked. It would be annoying to have to reselect that every time you move to a different subpage.
Theme can use local storage, instead of cookies.
This breaks once you’ve got server-sided rendering.
I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of “refuses cookies” and “refuses AI” is a circle.
Please stop with the generational strife nonsense. It only serves as an attempt to distract from class war. We are all in this together against the rich bastards, regardless of our age.
gen x here. I still refuse cookies. I also refuse AI.
most the people I see promoting AI are millennials and gen z.
🤷 whatever though, nobody will listen to me anyway.
Oh fuck off and get a life
Is it that bad? I see there are people giving full access to AI but I always thought it wasn’t so much to refer to it as “a generation”.
It’s very much not a generational thing. More gen alpha might use AI because they’re young and keep up with trends more, but there’s still plenty that denounce it and plenty of boomers who accept it.
