• rotkehle @feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      in Germany there’s a (somewhat) new law that makes it mandatory for all websites to ask you if it can store cookies on your harddrive. since then every time you visit a new page or on a new installation you have to click through three pop-ups, it’s sooooo annoying to navigate the internet since then. so yeah this feature is more then welcome here ^^

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        11 months ago

        I think it’s the same for whole EU. I’m forced to click even though I’m not from Germany.

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          And the thing is afaik in the EU websites cant save anything nonessential unless you actively opt-in. In other countries its opt-out. So blocking cookie banners while not strictly cleaning or blocking may be harmful for privacy

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          okay. my bad it’s apparently EU wide. so then it doesn’t make sense for Firefox to only do that in Germany.

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      11 months ago

      As I understand it, the blocker has website-specific rules to automatically click the right buttons. For the first release, they’ve probably primarily tested those with German websites. I assume that if it works well there and they’ve ironed out most bugs, we can see it roll out more widely.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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        11 months ago

        I think (and hope) tha the logical conclusion of the DNT lawsuit v LinkedIn will be that DNT will be deemed necessary and sufficient, and that this setting will replace all the cookie banners. But even if that comes to pass it will be years before all the banners will be gone.

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      What is that all about? Geo fencing privacy enhancements?

      Are they trying to keep Google happy or something.

      • Dr Jekell@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.