So browsers have started to roll out GPC, or basically browser-based consent. This was explicitly designed to deal with intrusive cookie banners. I’ve now noticed several websites with the same intrusive banners recognizing that you opted out but begging you to opt back in anyway. These banners are so big as to obscure the majority of the content on the site.
Your data, our choice!
Fuuuuuuck you.
Stop pissing on me, and definitely stop telling me it’s a nice warm rain while you’re Pasi on me. I fucking hate lawyer speak
we already had a browser based consent system called “do not track”
its not about the tech to say no. its about getting tech companies to respect our consent or lack thereof.
This, also site permissions (at least in Vivaldi), extensions like I don’t need Cookies or its filterlists in the adblocker. (eg. https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt), all other filtering with Portmaster, the middle finger for Big Brother corps.
These aren’t tech companies, they’re just ad-driven publications
But yeah I remember the Do Not Track signal ironically being used to track you. And I remember Microsoft make it completely useless because they turned it on by default.
tech companies are the ones pushing the ad based model. mainly google, whose main source of revenue at the time was selling ultra-targeted ads.
Fuck those sites. No JavaScript AT ALL for you. And a fat ass blocklist from uBo, and privacy.resistFingerprinting.
> Your Choice
> One button
you may or may not press that button
~plus small print~
Your webpage is not your property. It’s data you sent me. What i do with it is not your business.
These banners are so big as to obscure the majority of the content on the site.
They’re designed that way intentionally so that it becomes too annoying and it forces us to opt back in for the sake of convenience for using the service.
If that shit ever pops up in any of my devices, I’m not gonna use that website ever. These corporate tricks are just disgusting.
I think it’s even worse than that. I imagine the point is to mislead people into believing that privacy laws mandate obnoxious banners in order to get them to oppose said laws.
Exactly. People who aren’t as tech savvy would think something’s wrong because they think companies won’t lie to them/they’d think they have no other way and they would have to opt back in.
There isn’t any explanation about what the user can do on that banner. It’s just “accept it or we’ll annoy you and make it very inconvenient to use the service.” And most people would hit ‘accept’.
Privacy keeps worsening day by day now. 2026 feels just as privacy-centered as 1984 nowadays.
Easy, don’t use products from companies which say user consent, but mean obligation, are the same which say “We value your privacy”, but mean “to sell it to others for our incommings”.
but mean “
to sell it to others for our incommingsto lease access to it repeatedly to maximize profit”.Oh I closed this immediately
Apparently these sites missing a “reject all” button aren’t legal. I filed a complaint. If you come across these, you should too:
At any point, you can opt out of targeted advertising and the sale or sharing of your personal information.
No opt out button available.
Exactly. I’d like to opt out right now. I already opted out.
“Kindly go fuck yourself”
There are so many sites I just don’t bother with due to crap like this. I can live without what ever they are offering.
Hit that back button.
I’m gonna opt out of whatever bs article they’re trying to get clicks with.
We’re done scrolling assholes!
