[HN Gopher] Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management ___________________________________________________________________ Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management Author : DerekBickerton Score : 29 points Date : 2023-04-13 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (consentomatic.au.dk) (TXT) w3m dump (consentomatic.au.dk) | [deleted] | recursive wrote: | It's wild to me there's all this document sniffing song and | dance, rather than just creating some standardized request | headers. How many CPU cycles are spent setting up and tearing | down these pointless banners? | nostromo wrote: | That header exists, but the EU decided to go in a different, | and much more annoying, direction. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track | mqus wrote: | The problem is rather, that they didn't decide yet (e-privacy | directive). The gdpr was meant to be general, it was designed | to not have technical details because it applies to | everything. | whstl wrote: | Websites are free to use it. It is 100% compliant with the | GDPR. | robryk wrote: | But they're not required to obey it, so they ignore it, | presumably because they expect that more people will agree | if they are annoyed with a dialog by each website they | visit. | pmdr wrote: | Cool, next they'll add recaptcha to change/reject cookies. | | Dark patterns are everywhere and there's seemingly no widespread | boycott against them. Open source projects should have banners | about them on their homepage, as they've had for other social | issues. | ShadowBanThis01 wrote: | My favorite is the big button that says "Do not sell my | information," which takes you to a panel that has "Sale of | personal information" turned ON. | | Even worse, look at this BS: https://i.imgur.com/Q0Hlzk3.png | | The button that says "Do not sell my information" means YES DO | sell my information when it's "on." | | I complained to them directly and said I'd pursue a complaint | with the CA state's attorney, and to my surprise they actually | changed it. But you still see this: | https://i.imgur.com/fx0pqxA.png | robert_foss wrote: | Consent-O-Matic is a great project, and near completely solves | the cookie banner issue while still giving the user the choice of | which types of cookies that are desirable. | IanCal wrote: | This is great, I'd kind of like an option when dark patterns are | detected to opt in then immediately submit gdpr data requests | though. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-13 23:00 UTC)