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Why does it not have "Decline all" button??

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why does it not have “Decline all” button??

So that most people just click on "accept all"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I close the website. Didn't miss an essential website (or app, for that matter) so far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just accept knowing that uBlock will block it anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Consent o matic is your friend

[–] anzo 1 points 1 week ago

Yup. Best firefox extension after uBO. If I had to pick a third one it would be Privacy Badger, although it breaks some sites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily all of it.

Even anti fingerprinting browser forks aren’t perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah but the consent boxes are just for cookies anyway

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yep. Most websites make it intentionally difficult to reject this stuff by giving you a single "ACCEPT ALL" button and then burying each individual actual setting behind multiple menus and dropdowns, some of which are deliberately obfuscated, sometimes with odd color choices for the toggle that make it difficult to determine whether the option is actually on or off.

Some websites offer a "Reject All" option, but they are few and far between.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're not that few and far between, as declining must be as easy as declining per the GDPR. Just report the transgressors to the national watchdog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish it were that easy in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As an US citizen you just literally are owned and experiemented by all its corporations

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Shame that they don't enforce adding that button.