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Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences
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breitbart.com #438

Closed M1Aston closed 3 months ago

M1Aston commented 4 months ago

https://www.breitbart.com

In cookie settings Social mediahas to be allowed for embedded stuff, like tweets, to work. As it is now, this is what you get. cookie

Please fix this.

svnhub commented 4 months ago

Do you have analytics tracking enabled in your preferences in the extension? Otherwise it is going to disable them by default.

In the cases where sites do not accept your preferences and require more tracking in order to earn money on delivering the content that they would like you to consume you may have to manually give them more tracking access. You should, however, also be aware that in that case you are allowing them to share with Twitter the fact that you read this particular article and watched the video embedded into it. And that Twitter collects this information.

M1Aston commented 4 months ago

Enabling "Ad selection, delivery and reporting" fixed it.

Privacy is important to me, but breaking websites (especially a news site) is not worth the hassle. I hope extensions like ublock and Cookie Autodelete will offer some privacy protection while sites keep working normally.

svnhub commented 3 months ago

Yeah, some sites even make it more extreme with the track-or-pay strategy in which case you cannot see any content at all without either having to allow them to track you or having to pay them. And if you pay them it is unclear if they are just tracking you still anyways.

I'll close this issue since it is more of a political issue with the current state of things on the web rather than a technical one related to the extension.