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By now, even the most pollyanic website user is aware of software called “cookies”. And, the potential abuse thereof. Do NOT continue to inform me that when I visit your site that I am being manipulated, manhandled, misled, or misinformed by the use of your cookies. Do NOT ask me to consent to using software that I cannot control. Do NOT remind me every day I go to your pedantic pontificating pile of putrid pulchritude that you are abusing me, and will continue to abuse me, with digital tracking.

I know.


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Posts: 5041 | Location: Commonwealth of Virginia | Registered: January 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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This started not too long ago. I believe that it is a legal requirement (fairly recent).

I find that once I acknowledge the notice, it is not repeated for that website unless I view the website with a different browser.



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Posts: 30544 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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And my Apple browser creates a “new” browser quite often all by itself, and I see the notification over and over and over.


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Posts: 5041 | Location: Commonwealth of Virginia | Registered: January 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
And my Apple browser creates a “new” browser quite often all by itself, and I see the notification over and over and over.

Safari? I left Safari in the rear view mirror about 2-3 years ago in favor of Vivaldi, which is infinitely more configurable. It is a Chrome based browser. Unfortunately, they have no mobile offering for iOS, where I use Brave instead.
 
The "cookie things" show as an overlay on the web page in Vivaldi. You can still view the page (without clicking it) if you do not mind 1/3 of your screen being covered up.



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Posts: 10778 | Location: South Congress AZ | Registered: May 27, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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On my chrome browser, it doesn't just notify me. The pop up wants me to accept all, reject all, or manage my cookie preferences for that web site.

But your post reminds me of well-intentioned laws that do nothing. Like the California Initiative Law proposition 65 that required business to put up signs if there are any carcinogens that may be in their business.

Guess what. Just about every business has that stupid sticker.



"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
 
Posts: 19582 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Unfortunately, this pain in the ass notice has become a legal requirement in some places so it's not going away.




"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards."
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in."
 
Posts: 3509 | Location: Two blocks from the Center of the Universe | Registered: December 30, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I don't mind those as much as the pop-ups that show up despite pop-up blockers and other security features.
Some sites like the Washington Examiner are unreadable as a result.


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Posts: 18016 | Location: One hop from Paradise | Registered: July 27, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I don't mind those as much as the pop-ups that show up despite pop-up blockers and other security features.
Some sites like the Washington Examiner are unreadable as a result.
If "Reader View" is available on that site, give it a try.



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Posts: 30544 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
On my chrome browser, it doesn't just notify me. The pop up wants me to accept all, reject all, or manage my cookie preferences for that web site.

But your post reminds me of well-intentioned laws that do nothing. Like the California Initiative Law proposition 65 that required business to put up signs if there are any carcinogens that may be in their business.

Guess what. Just about every business has that stupid sticker.

So do most product I buy every day now, both locally and online. Apparently, in California EVERYTHING causes cancer.
 
Posts: 7244 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Apparently, in California EVERYTHING causes cancer.
Drinking distilled water and / or breathing oxygen causes cancer in California. Razz



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Posts: 30544 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Apparently, in California EVERYTHING causes cancer.
Drinking distilled water and / or breathing oxygen causes cancer in California. Razz

Here's a thought: Maybe it's California itself that causes cancer. I wonder if long term residents of southwestern Oregon and western Nevada and Arizona have higher than average rates of cancer?
 
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