Is it just me that's fed up with the manage cookies pop ups?

[TheSaucepanMan]

I'm grateful that I can now choose to decline their offer of taking data from me for free really I am but I am so sick of having to manage cookies every single time.

Trying to read anything is so tedious when you first have to decline/object. If the list is endless with no option to reject the whole lot I leave the page.

Is it just me?!

No, it is driving me mad. 🤬

Does immediately leaving the page have any effect? Like boycotting products?

Am with you too! I find some ridiculously long and tedious - Jamie Oliver, I’m looking at you. It pops up every.darn.page. So eventually you have to just click accept to get on with your life.
Huh!

I maybe completely wrong, but it would have to leave a cookie to remember that you don't want cookies....so therefore as you decline cookies, it can't remember you don't want cookies and so ask everytime.

Gawd, I hate them. YANBU.

@Giggorata

No, it is driving me mad. 🤬

Does immediately leaving the page have any effect? Like boycotting products?

Good question, I just cannot be arsed to scroll through hundreds of 'legitimate partners' and say no. If they have that many people gathering info then it's an absolute no from me. I'd like a blanket ban on any sort of bloody data collection when looking at websites.

Every. Single. Thing. You. Visit. Online.

You get a tantalising glimpse of the info you're trying to see or item you'd like to buy, then it jumps in the way like an annoying prankster going "Haha!" to disturb what you're doing.

A further annoyance is some sites where, even once you've accepted their blooming cookies, they still keep shoving things in the way: "63 people are looking at this right now" or "46 bought in the last 24 hours" Fuck off! I don't care! If you let me actually look at the item then maybe I'll be able to buy it too

It irritates me that we cannot apparently find what we want without being tracked and then helpfully having adverts littered across all other platforms.

I'm my own mind I have never ever bought anything that's been advertised based on anything I have previously looked at.

Also Peloton bikes and Noom please can you piss off!

The worst for me is when you cannot even click 'accept' as the button is at the bottom of the page where it can't be reached on your phone screen iyswim? Sometimes you can get it by turning your phone on its side but often this doesn't work.

Unfortunately it's a legal requirement for websites to request permission.

And not all cookies are data-collection files for advertising / tracking. You need to enable cookies simply to add an item to your basket when shopping online.

@cosmopolitanplease

The worst for me is when you cannot even click 'accept' as the button is at the bottom of the page where it can't be reached on your phone screen iyswim? Sometimes you can get it by turning your phone on its side but often this doesn't work.

Yes sometimes even turning the phone doesn't work. Such a palaver for one website. I'm tempted to go off grid just use yogurt pots and string and smoke signals to communicate.

It drives me mad, it's effectively broken the internet. There are so many websites I can't use now because I refuse to accept all their cookies (or the permissions wall is too long).

And since when did you have to "consent" to legitimate interest? They are different grounds for using personal information.

All websites should have a simple "reject all but essential" button. it is very difficult to create a website with no cookies at all but the tracking ones should be turned off by default as it gets a bit tedious being chased around the internet.

I find the worst are the local news websites and US health websites.

A further annoyance is some sites where, even once you've accepted their blooming cookies, they still keep shoving things in the way: "63 people are looking at this right now" or "46 bought in the last 24 hours" Fuck off! I don't care! If you let me actually look at the item then maybe I'll be able to buy it too

And the instant chat pop-ups. GO AWAY!