Op 30-7-2023 om 16:56 schreef jr:
> hi,
> 
> Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> ...
>> P.S. Can you Europeans please tell your parliament to repeal the cookies
>> notification law?  Those pop-ups are as useless as California prop 65
>> cancer warnings--except that the California warnings can be ignored.
> 
> living in the UK I see the same as-useless-as pop-ups.  I guess you'll need to
> re-phrase "you Europeans" as "you Europeans who are part of the European Union".
>   (though pithier wording comes to mind :-))
> 
> 
>> I am tired of being forced to interact with damn pop-ups just to look at
>> every damn website, just because a few people who can't be bothered to
>> configure their Web browser are paranoid about their privacy.  (I bet
>> they're the same people who use their cell phones to spread conspiracy
>> theories about microchips in the vaccines.)
> 
> disagree, frankly.  no one is "forced".  personally, I tend to visit a new URL
> in an "incognito" window, and if the first thing I see is a pop-up, I close the
> window, done.  fwiw I do think that companies need to up their "ethical game".
> ie there is no need for any company to dump _their_ shit in (my) "local
> storage", be it cookies or db, unless and until I do something on their site
> necessitating that store, perhaps put "an item" into the "shopping cart".  "cuts
> both ways".
> 
> 
> regards, jr.
> 

Btw, Firefox has excellent extensions which suppress pop-ups, cookies, 
and such. In addition, it has a privacy mode. I am almost never troubled 
by those things.

-- 
Thomas

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