• watson@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.

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    12 hours ago

    Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.

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      When uou accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension “I still don’t care about cookies”

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    I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.

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    11 hours ago

    At least one tabloid newspaper in Finland (Iltalehti) has put the settings behind a paywall. Accept tracking or pay up.