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Nothing to make you marvel at the wonders of technology like a massive cookie consent dialog ON THE TELLY 
A reminder that obnoxious, blocking cookie consent banners are not required by law but are there because tech companies had a massive tantrum at being prevented from tracking the bejesus out of you by default.. They don't need to be annoying or intrusive, companies can absolutely choose not to track, to track less, or make the consent experience easier, they choose not to
@sue I note cookie banners from US sites that are now accept invasion or leave the site.
Not sure how this fits into a GDPR framework
@channelOwen oh excellent that's next level
@sue So, if you are technical, get used to browsing the webcontent as a JSON document, and for-go JS execution and like "webpage"-ness.
EDIT: I suspect this doesn't work, but it does allow me to see all the text that should be on screen more easily.
My first thought on this was that many sites have banners where all you can do is accept ALL of the cookies or you're not going any further.
At least they weeded themselves out as the toxic places they are with that, and yes I just leave.
@MyWoolyMastadon @channelOwen @sue it's their website, if you don't like the way they do business then take your dollars elsewhere
Your money or that sweet sweet cookie data. They've made it clear what they'd rather have
@MyWoolyMastadon @channelOwen @sue I also just leave, but I'm not sure they actually delay loading the cookies until they get your accept 
Always wondered if those are legal
@Beldarak @channelOwen @sue Nope, and the deny option must be next to accept option with the same style (no dark patterns allowed).
@channelOwen @sue many EU websites chose "accept invasion or pay now to subscribe" and apparently this is legal under gdpr... Which irritates me greatly.
@PierricD @channelOwen @sue It's not, @noybeu is working on it.
utterly ludicrous. [1]
- accept invasion or pay to subscribe (and invasion in that case too)
- manage cookies: go through the 941 partners individually deselecting your consend to have your privacy invaded by them
It doesn't
@channelOwen @sue Spanish sites now do "we can stop tracking you…for a fee"
I read a thing a few years ago that each user account in FB is worth 12USD in advertising spend. Region not mentioned in the article, 12USD in some village in Nigeria would go much further than the same 12USD in Manhattan or London.
There are quite a few services were I definitely get 12USD/Y of value, so would spend that.
Not sure about FB though
@channelOwen
It does not. You're not permitted to require tracking as a condition of using the site.
@sue
@channelOwen hop onto a VPN and see if the same thing happens from a EU country. A lot of websites automate the consent process to third parties and they'll serve different versions of the consent banner depending on where they think you're viewing from.
Some of them will give you a different banner depending on which US state you're in as some states have their own implementations.