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.
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.
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.
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.