#tracking-cookies — Public Fediverse posts

Website: we'll keep asking you every time you visit about your cookie preferences, over and over again, until you finally accidentally click "Accept all Cookies", and then we'll never ask you again and bury that setting so deep you'll never figure out how to change it.

#TrackingCookies #AnalyticsCookies #AdvertisingCookies #MarketingCookies #WebsitePrivacy #ScottSoftware

"The European Commission wants browsers to manage cookie preferences instead of pop-ups on every website."
https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal

A welcomed change: enforce at the browser level. No more annoying dialogs with toggles for cookies from hundreds of "partners".

I mean, if a cookie dialog has a button labeled "withdraw consent" or "Reject all", it's quite the admittance that the page is up to no good.

#EU #BrowserCookies #TrackingCookies

Remember when #GitHub proudly announced that they don't need a #CookiePopup, because they don't use any #TrackingCookies?

This screenshot is from today.

(Link: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/no-cookie-for-you/)

Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome - Enlarge / Google, like most of us, has a hard time letting go of cookie... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2038576 #thirdpartycookies #trackingcookies #privacysandbox #googlechrome #firefox #mozilla #google #chrome #apple #tech #floc

Google will not phase out tracking cookies in Chrome after all

https://stackdiary.com/google-will-not-phase-out-tracking-cookies-in-chrome-after-all/

#Privacy #AdTracking #GoogleChrome #ThirdPartyCookies #OnlinePrivacy #DataCollection #UserControl #PrivacySettings #AdTech #BrowserPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #UserConsent #PrivacySandbox #TrackingCookies #AdTargeting #PrivacyTools #DataProtection #UserChoice #BrowserSettings #PrivacyExtensions #UserData #OnlineSecurity #AdTransparency #UserRights #PrivacyControls #DataPrivacy #BrowserTracking

Tracking van websitebezoekers kan een kostbare zaak zijn, als je dus te ver gaat, zoals Kruidvat.
https://www.agconnect.nl/business/privacy/6-ton-boete-voor-kruidvat-voor-stiekem-volgen-sitebezoekers
#trackingcookies #website #privacy #Kruidvat
#AGConnect #SijthoffMedia

The end of May coinciding with the end of a four-day workweek was a pleasant bonus of Memorial Day’s spot on the calendar this year. Another bonus: I had my last client-paid copy for the month filed by 2:09 p.m. Friday.

Patreon readers got one other post, a rant about the woeful UX of a Hilton offer for double points on upcoming hotel stays. That didn’t get published until almost 9 p.m. on Friday–which is still a lot better than the filing frenzy I’ve exhibited in the final minutes of the final days of other months.

5/28/2024: T-Mobile to Buy Regional Carrier UScellular, PCMag

I didn’t notice the name on the credit of the photo of a T-Mobile flag on a golf course that I’d selected from Getty Images to illustrate this post until I copied that metadata to paste into PCMag’s CMS. That’s when I realized that my Georgetown Voice friend Darren Carroll, a seriously talented photographer, had taken that shot during an idle moment at a golf tournament sponsored by the carrier.

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5/28/2024: A Lot of Websites Ask You About Cookies. How Should You Answer?, AARP

My editor at AARP asked if I could write an explainer about those dialogs you see on so many pages that suggest, ask, implore or assume that you’re okay with the site–and, in most cases, advertising networks–writing information about your visit to small text files saved on your device. After talking to numerous experts, I continue to think that your best response to those dialogs, should you not want to be tracked by advertisers, is to use a browser like Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox that will block ad-network trackers by default.

5/29/2024: Verizon Enlists AST SpaceMobile to Kill Off Its US Dead Zones, PCMag

Verizon’s apparent disinterest in using low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide at least emergency-level coverage in dead zones was looking increasingly weird. Then the carrier signed up the same satellite operator as AT&T to provide that backup connectivity, although it seems to be more conservative in its sales pitch than AT&T.

5/30/2024: Android Update Will Let You Fix Dumb Texting Typos (to Other Android Users), PCMag

I’ve yet to get the update to Google’s Messages app that enables this editing of sent RCS messages–assuming the recipients also have the same update installed–so I cannot yet report on how satisfying it might feel to fix a text typo.

5/30/2024: IRS Direct File App to Return for 2025, Welcome Taxpayers in More States, PCMag

This was one bit of news that I didn’t expect to see coming this week, but with the information-security conference I was attending not yielding any obvious breaking news, I jumped on the chance to write this up instead. And to point out to readers that while the IRS may call this rollout of its free tax-prep app “permanent,” you have to expect that voters returning convicted felon Donald Trump to the White House would soon be followed by Trump scrapping this program.

5/31/2024: FCC: It’s Game Over for Affordable Broadband Connectivity Program, PCMag

The official end of the ACP and the $30 monthly discounts on broadband it provided for more than 20 million American households led to my editors asking me to cover this program one more time.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/02/weekly-output-t-mobile-buys-much-of-uscellular-cookie-permissions-dialogs-verizon-taps-ast-spacemobile-android-update-irs-keeps-direct-file-affordable-connectivity-program-ends/

#ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #cookies #DirectFile #IRS #RCS #satelliteBroadband #TMobile #taxPrepSoftware #textingTypo #trackingCookies #USCellular #UScellular #verizon

Why do Conde Nast’s partners need to identify me by my device characteristics? There’s no obvious reason for this to be “necessary” for my use of the site, so this appears to be deliberate non-compliance with the Data Protection Act.

#Privacy #TrackingCookies #OverSharing #Advertising #UnnecessaryTracking #PrivacyInvasion #UserHostile

They value my privacy but have 1,540 “partners” who need to process my personal data? No.

#Privacy #TrackingCookies #OverSharing #Advertising #UnnecessaryTracking #PrivacyInvasion #UserHostile

Je pense que c’est mon record actuel : 1 143 sites partenaires qui aimeraient déposer des cookies ou accéder à mon terminal, pour lire un article sur H2 Mobile.
#tracking #trackingcookies

Anschließend werden dann eine ganze Menge #Cookies von allen möglichen #Drittanbietern gesetzt - ohne dass ich groß etwas dagegen tun könnte.

Ich hatte die Diskussion um die #DSGVO-Konformität von Cookie-Bannern bisher so verstanden, dass doch eigentlich stattdessen eine sehr einfach Abwahl der #TrackingCookies möglich sein sollte.
Habe ich da eine Entscheidung nicht mitbekommen, die das aushebelt?

Dank im Voraus für Eure Meinungen, Hinweise & natürlich auch Re-Toots :mastolove:
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Digital marketing firms file UK competition complaint against Google’s Privacy Sandbox - Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xk170SXnSLc/ #trackingcookies #privacysandbox #competition #onlineads #privacy #europe #google #gdpr #cma

Google plans to drop Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022 - Enlarge (credit: Rdsmith4 / Wikimedia)
Feeling the pressure from competing browser developers, Go... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1643871 #trackingcookies #browsers #privacy #biz&it #chrome #google