This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless “accept/reject cookies” dialogues?

Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is …just awful.

Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it’s rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly — or at least not trying to “get you”. At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for “reject all” or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I’ve just seen too many of them where clicking anything but “accept all” will lead to some sort of visual punishment.

Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just … darn … everywhere, all the frickin’ time.

Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just “accept all” muscle memory? Plugins? Using just one site (lemmy.world, obviously) and nothing else? Something better?

Bonus, question (technical take): is there a perspective that this could be dealt on browser technical level? To me it smells like the kind of problem that could be solved in a similar way like language – ie. via HTTP headers that come from browser preferences.

    • @098qwelkjzxcEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Noooo way, they got bought out by Avast

      • unabatedshagie
        3•1 year ago

        Someone forked the last version from before it was bought. I think it’s called “I still don’t care about cookies”

      • @PlutoniumAcidEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Fuck, why oh why does all the good stuff get bought by bad business? Damn profit greedy bastards.

    • @netvorOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      from the plugin description

      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.

      …not sure about that. In my heart of hearts, I always want to help out fellow developers with the performance/diag data. I guess I also almost always want “functionality”.

      The only thing I never want (and that “preference” is often worth leaving the site entirely if it’s not easy to express that) is the marketing/social scam. So I’d prefer the plugin to choose this for me.

      I understand it’s not technically easy to do so, unless there is some standardized way – at which point we probably would not need plugin for that.