This was a 2021 comic, which I think was the time when companies had to comply with GDPR regulations. Cookies didn’t go away, but companies had to explicitly ask the user for consent to use them [or atleast can’t hide that they were using cookies]; usually in form of popups.
It’s so annoying having to tell every site every time that I don’t want cookies. Shouldn’t it remember? Isn’t there a way to save a small amount of data client side and send it with the request? That sounds like a good idea. I don’t see it going badly.
I mean. I won’t. You never consented to that. But if you’re ever in Cleveland, and you wanna be kissed, well…you know where to find me.
Actually you don’t.
Ah, well, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be. But hey! You listen to me right now! Keep on being you, and knowing things! The world needs more people who know usefull things! Thats how others learn.
And somewhere as a society, we’ve lost sight of that, by large. We’ve become distant as a people. We’ve lost the art of conversation! Gone are the days of people from opposite ends of the fence seeing each other as friends. Everybody is your enemy now, and everybody is divided. But why? Why now?
Money. Follow the money. If we’re all fighting with each other, we can’t fight with the rich. And who designed it that way? Certainly not the poor, or the middle class. We don’t have trickle down ecconomics. We have gushing upwards ecconomics.
Like…shits bad. This has to be late stage capitolism. The whole system is on brink of collapse. The rich can’t take our money if we have no money. Which means they have no money. Nobody has money anymore, and we face a 1930s style great depression.
Actually, I was reading about the great depression. It didn’t sound all that different from my life right now. And do you know what happened right after the great depression? We kicked the nazis asses!
So if there’s one silver lining to how much shit the world is going through right now, it’s this. There is a very non-zero chance I’ll get to kick some nazi ass! Because god damn, are there a lot of them these days!
I’m generally pretty against murder. But killing a nazi? Well that seems more morally correct than NOT killing a nazi. So maybe I have that to look forward to. Yeah!
What was I talking about? Oh, right, yes. Thank you for the cookie tip. It’s going to make my PC internet back to it’s authentic self.
You might want to try Ghostery. It’s similar to ublock (probably I’ve never used ublock).
It auto-denies all possible cookies, randomizes your location and fingerprinting information, and blocks ads and stuff (good for if you use pihole but need to use a public VPN for something, or mobile browsing or whatever)
I’ve never found a site it didn’t work with, tho it’s possible, I’m sure. It’s also one of the only extensions available for iOS browsers that does all the things, at least that I’ve been able to find.
Prefer Privacy Badger over Ghostery. It’s been a while but my understanding is Ghostery sells some data about your data blocking habits. I switched like 8 years ago so I don’t remember the details. It’s made by the EFF which is a very good organization.
This was a 2021 comic, which I think was the time when companies had to comply with GDPR regulations. Cookies didn’t go away, but companies had to explicitly ask the user for consent to use them [or atleast can’t hide that they were using cookies]; usually in form of popups.
ah, so that’s why we get these notifications on every single website now ?
Yes, and you can use Consent-0-Matic to fill then out automatically (and reject cookies). Works on at least most of the annoying ones
It’s so annoying having to tell every site every time that I don’t want cookies. Shouldn’t it remember? Isn’t there a way to save a small amount of data client side and send it with the request? That sounds like a good idea. I don’t see it going badly.
I could kiss you right now.
I mean. I won’t. You never consented to that. But if you’re ever in Cleveland, and you wanna be kissed, well…you know where to find me.
Actually you don’t.
Ah, well, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be. But hey! You listen to me right now! Keep on being you, and knowing things! The world needs more people who know usefull things! Thats how others learn.
And somewhere as a society, we’ve lost sight of that, by large. We’ve become distant as a people. We’ve lost the art of conversation! Gone are the days of people from opposite ends of the fence seeing each other as friends. Everybody is your enemy now, and everybody is divided. But why? Why now?
Money. Follow the money. If we’re all fighting with each other, we can’t fight with the rich. And who designed it that way? Certainly not the poor, or the middle class. We don’t have trickle down ecconomics. We have gushing upwards ecconomics.
Like…shits bad. This has to be late stage capitolism. The whole system is on brink of collapse. The rich can’t take our money if we have no money. Which means they have no money. Nobody has money anymore, and we face a 1930s style great depression.
Actually, I was reading about the great depression. It didn’t sound all that different from my life right now. And do you know what happened right after the great depression? We kicked the nazis asses!
So if there’s one silver lining to how much shit the world is going through right now, it’s this. There is a very non-zero chance I’ll get to kick some nazi ass! Because god damn, are there a lot of them these days!
I’m generally pretty against murder. But killing a nazi? Well that seems more morally correct than NOT killing a nazi. So maybe I have that to look forward to. Yeah!
What was I talking about? Oh, right, yes. Thank you for the cookie tip. It’s going to make my PC internet back to it’s authentic self.
Yea I am using it ! But it works with only a subset of websites
thanks for the recommendation in any case
You might want to try Ghostery. It’s similar to ublock (probably I’ve never used ublock).
It auto-denies all possible cookies, randomizes your location and fingerprinting information, and blocks ads and stuff (good for if you use pihole but need to use a public VPN for something, or mobile browsing or whatever)
I’ve never found a site it didn’t work with, tho it’s possible, I’m sure. It’s also one of the only extensions available for iOS browsers that does all the things, at least that I’ve been able to find.
Prefer Privacy Badger over Ghostery. It’s been a while but my understanding is Ghostery sells some data about your data blocking habits. I switched like 8 years ago so I don’t remember the details. It’s made by the EFF which is a very good organization.
Thanls for the recommendation !
I’ve had better results with enabling the cookie-notice blocklist in ublock origin
Didn’t know about that… will check it out thanks
There is also
I still don't care about cookies.what is that ?
Same kind of addon as Consent-o-matic. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
Works a bit differently.
Thanks !
I think he refers to the browser extension of the same name.
Of the same type. :-)Edit: I thought you mean of the same as Consent-O-Matic, not what you actually meant.
ok will look it up cheers