[HN Gopher] Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management
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       Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management
        
       Author : DerekBickerton
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-04-13 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (consentomatic.au.dk)
        
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       | 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.
        
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