#tracking cookies

[quantumstonegarden]

refused to visit a website today because i spent about FIFTEEN MINUTES scrolling through unticking "legitimate interest"... only to find out there were more pages????

fuck this. i reported it. that's bloody illegal as well

[andreathemagpie]

I reblog all the posts about browsers that block tracking cookies, and other such things, because I know that a lot of people are worried about companies getting their data.

My own feelings on the subject are quite different. Companies are gonna throw ads at me, no matter what -- unless I pay for the ad-free version of every online service I use, which I am in no way prepared to do. So if I take all the necessary precautions to keep companies from tracking where I go on the web, I'll still get a shitload of ads; it's just gonna be a bunch of random bullshit. On the other hand, if I let them track me, at least the ads that they're gonna throw at me anyway have a chance of being for things that I might be interested in.

But that's just me. I have enough other things to worry about, so this is off my list.

You do you.

[pavel-nosok]

Ireland-led GDPR probe of Yahoo’s cookie banners moves to draft decision review

Ireland-led GDPR probe of Yahoo’s cookie banners moves to draft decision review

A multi-year investigation into TechCrunch’s parent entity Yahoo — looking at compliance with key transparency requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including in relation to cookie banners displayed on its media properties — has taken a step forward today after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it has submitted a draft decision to…

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[freyawinther]

What I am about to propose might be controversial but hear me out. Instead of us having to decline cookies every time we access a website or accept them (hell no), why dont we just get rid of the cookies?

[ground-zoro]

It just took me a full hour to scroll through and turn off all the partners in Tumblrs “Privacy” update. You can blindly “agree to all”, all being in the hundreds, or spend forever going through each one manually. I hope every person working for Tumblr and all those advertising and spying companies get doxxed and their lives ruined.  

[joooooy1222-blog]

Tracking Cookies and GDPR - Bozho's tech blog

GDPR is the new data protection regulation, as you probably already know. I've given a detailed practical advice for what it means for developers (and product owners). However, there's one thing missing there - cookies. The elephant in the room. Previously I've stated that cookies are subject to

[scottsmyunlockedmind-blog]

Internet Cookies

I am really beginning to hate these internet cookies,  more and more often, as I browse internet web pages, pop-ups of website cookies asking permission to be installed on my computer, phone, tablet and it is becoming extremely annoying.

So what are cookies, and why would I want them in the first place?   There is more than one kind of cookie, and just like a real life cookie, some you want to have, and there are some you don't.

First, the good types of cookie that is present on most devices:

Session Cookies: only exist in temporary memory and are deleted when you close the browser. Any cookie created without an expiration date is automatically a session cookie. A common uses for session cookies include remembering what’s in your shopping cart on an e-commerce site

Persistent cookies: are written onto your device’s memory and come with an expiration date. They are only used by the website that created them, and can last however long the website dictates. They remain on your device even after you close your web browser. Your web browser uses first-party persistent cookies for many personal sites, like remembering that you’re signed in so you don’t need to log in every time you visit the same site.

Now the bad types of cookies (Who likes raisins anyway?):

  Third-party persistent cookies: also known as tracking cookies, like the first-party session cookies, they are stored in your device’s memory and have a set expiration date. Unlike the session variety, however, third-party persistent cookies are accessed on websites that didn’t create them.

This allows the cookie’s creator to collect and receive data any time the user visits a page with a resource belonging to them.

Some of the most common resources that use tracking cookies include:

Advertisements

Social media widgets, (share buttons, comments section)

Web Analyzers

And the some of the biggest name companies that use these are:

Facebook

Google

Twitter

So there is some basic information for all of us out there, I even learned new stuff in my research. But the real problem about all these E'ffing cookies is that you don't know which ones are going to be installed on your computer, it is not stated clearly, and if you were to find out you would probably have to read the "Terms and agreements" for each cookie downloaded on your computer.(That is if you could understand the terms in the first place.)

I don't have the patience for all that. What I do instead is close the page, find a different one without the cookies demanding to be allowed to be installed on my device. Or I simply hit the X button and don't agree to anything,  there are literally billions of pages out there, and I'm sure I can find my information elsewhere.

Scott Goerz

[pichu0102]

Now this is a little creepy: Searched Lil Jon on Google at one point, but never visited any other site from the search results. Next thing I know, Tumblr (owned by Yahoo) is showing me Little John recommended posts. What.

Tracking cookies are weird, even with Adblock enabled. No clue how Yahoo knows about my Google search.