Solved Cookie message is bs

[metaguy]

Many sites post the following: [FONT=&quot]"This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website."[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Am I wrong that allowing cookies does nothing to provide me a better experience? It only gives them more info about me. Your thoughts?
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[samuria]

It depends on the site a lot it will remeber you and any settings for the site it should by law remeber you cookie settings

 

[RolandJS]

Some web sites' cookies help users by remembering site settings, user preferences, user carts [sometimes I think].

 

[Bree]

[FONT=&quot]...[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Am I wrong that allowing cookies does nothing to provide me a better experience?[/FONT]

Well, one 'better experience' on this site and others is to let you return without having to sign in every time. Almost every website that requires you to sign in stores a login cookie if you ask it to 'remember me'.

 

[file3456]

The reason why websites all over hell are now telling you that they are using cookies (which they have done since back before the before time) is due to a little something the EU conquered up called the GDPR. General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

Now if you live in the U.S. and if your server is located in the U.S., you as the web Dev don't have to comply with an EU law. Like how a U.S. COPPA law has no bearing on an EU website. Never the less, many websites will annoy you with the legal crap that they are in fact using cookies (you think?) and with that terms about a privacy statement.

Now I live in the U.S. and my website server is located in the U.S. so I'm waaay outside of EU jurisdiction. However, I've made an effort to be GDPR compliant. I have a privacy policy that states all the crap, there are terms, a content policy and a copyright policy. I even had the ability for a user to delete their own account and posts, but I've sense gotten rid of that in case an account is comprised and thus deleted. Now I state in my privacy policy that you have to contact me (the Admin.) to request the deletion of your account with the option of your posts as well. This is actually a GDPR thing if one wants to follow it all to a T. I don't have anything that bugs the user about cookies because I know it bugs the user. Instead, there is a privacy policy there in the footer that talks about cookies and what have you, and by registering it's all laid out in the terms you agree with and it's all linked there. By clicking the registration button you are saying you understand and comply with all the crap I have there. LOL I think I worded it all out pretty good, but I should run it through a lawyer friend of mine.

Using cookies in an effort to track users is old school though. Heck, at one time they had something called a vanilla wafer. LOL Yes, third-party cookies can track you, that's why it's best to turn them off unless some asinine website absolutely needs them on for functionality. The methods used now to track users goes far and beyond cookies in every shape and form. Without typing a massive post on this I'll just state some ways how tracking is done now beyond the usage of cookies.

A) HTML5 local storage.

B) WebRTC.

C) WebGL

D) Canvas Data.

E) A unique fingerprint generated based on the types of fonts you have installed, screen resolution, any plug-ins installed, you name it.

Now if you want to help get rid of those pesky cookie warnings, then check out the I Don't Care About Cookies add-on. I don't care about cookies 3.2.8

I even helped diagnose an issue he had with his extension and I've been using it now for at least four years.

Do what I do, use more than one browser for certain tasks, use Sandboxie (learn about it), and for God sakes, never keep cookies and a cache. Have that deleted on browser exit. Depending on your Sandboxie settings this can be achieved. I'd also never store passwords in a browser either. If you or someone else here is reading this and is not very computer literate, then check out the Bitwarden password manager. Even though I don't use Bitwarden, I've read as much as I could on it and it looks promising. And if you don't trust their cloud you can roll your own Bitwarden server. All of the code is there at Github and I'm sure instructions can be found on YouTube and all over the Internet. For me personally I use Keepass, and I backup its database myself to many different forms of media including three cloud providers. Using Keepass you'll want to use ChaCha20 and Argon2i for the hashing.


Anyway, I'm going off topic here. LOL

 

[z3r010]

The reason why websites all over hell are now telling you that they are using cookies (which they have done since back before the before time) is due to a little something the EU conquered up called the GDPR. General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

Now if you live in the U.S. and if your server is located in the U.S., you as the web Dev don't have to comply with an EU law. Like how a U.S. COPPA law has no bearing on an EU website. Never the less, may websites will annoy you with the legal crap that they are in fact using cookies (you think?) and with that terms about a privacy statement.

Now I live in the U.S. and my website server is located in the U.S. so I'm waaay outside of EU jurisdiction. However, I've made an effort to be GDPR compliant. I have a privacy policy that states all the crap, there are terms, a content policy and a copyright policy. I even had the ability for a user to delete their own account and posts, but I've sense gotten rid of that in case an account is comprised and thus deleted. Now I state in my privacy policy that you have to contact me (the Admin.) to request the deletion of your account with the option of your posts as well. This is actually a GDPR thing if one wants to follow it all to a T. I don't have anything that bugs the user about cookies because I know it bugs the user. Instead, there is a privacy policy there in the footer that talks about cookies and what have you, and by registering it's all laid out in the terms you agree with and it's all linked there. By clicking the registration button you are saying you understand and comply with all the crap I have there. LOL I think I worded it all out pretty good, but I should run it through a lawyer friend of mine.

.........

California, Brazil and a few other have a requirement for the cookie notice now.


Cookie Law Regulations | CookieLaw

 

[file3456]

Yeah, California is like its own little country. Seen as how I live in Colorado, and hopefully Florida one day, they can piss off. LOL No, really, I'm not a California resident, and the server is not located withen the jurisdiction of Californiastan. Unless you go out of your way and after the CloudFlare edge servers, but I don't use CloudFlare for caching so it's analogous to standard issue server hops like normal Internet traffic... Never the less, all the polices I have in place and the added feature of the ability to request account removal along with posts are there which should give those warm and fuzzy feelings to even the worst California nut.

Full disclosure, I used to live in Riverside, California. I know the place well. It's a flipping jungle!

According to the state of California, state representatives are known to cause cancer.

 

[metaguy]

More than I expected, and that's just fine. Thank you all. You've taught me a lot. I DO live in CA.

 

[mmmabear]

I know this is marked solved, but others might find this "I don't care about cookies" web extension useful. It works pretty good in my Firefox.

Why do you need it?

Due to EU regulations and increased awareness of online privacy, every website must get user's permission before installing tracking cookies. If you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser, websites will ask for that permission again and again, and it will soon become very irritating to click the same I agree buttons every day.

This browser extension removes cookie warnings from almost all websites and saves you thousands of unnecessary clicks!

In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.

Please educate yourself about cookie related privacy issues and ways to protect yourself and your data. For example, you can block 3rd party cookies, install ad blocking extensions and then block tracking tools, delete browsing data regularly, enable Tracking Protection in your browser etc.

Compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Pale Moon,and Adblock Plus, AdBlock and uBlock Origin

I don't care about cookies 3.2.8

 

[file3456]

Echo (mythology - Wikipedia)

 

[metaguy]

"I don't care about cookies"

YES, it's a nice little app. Most cookie requests don't show. - Win 7, Firefox.



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[file3456]

HAHAHA!

I was referring to mmmabear's post because he/she "echoed" what I had already said about using that extension in a browser.