Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@gim @mike @jokeyrhyme That's another try to be US-Bigtech friendly by the politicians/EU commission.
The problem the runway for that is getting shorter and shorter. The last time (In the never ending Schrems Saga) the ECJ bound the GDPR privacy rights literally directly to the Charter, so bending the GDPR to weaken privacy literally would require EU Treaty changes.
So the whole thing the EU Commission is planning stands on wooden feet, but it will buy the "IT industry" a couple of months/years.

[jezcaudle@infosec.exchange]

@mike @dangillmor Same.

[horstworst@social.tchncs.de]

@mike
me too

[bbaugh@infosec.exchange]

@mike I do that too!
Relatedly I have been getting completely blocked pages because I use an ad blocker and am redirected to a page that says I need to allow them to serve content I don’t want. I don’t follow that either.

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@jokeyrhyme @mike In the EU, the ones where you have to deselect a gazillion cookies are actually malicious non-compliance, they have been found illegal. Unfortunately there isn’t much enforcement, so it mostly continues.

[duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I do exactly the same. I refined this just a little bit recently:
When I am *really* curious about the article, I turn on the browser‘s „reader“ mode to see if it then reveals the full article. If it still does not work, I close the tab.
@mike @onepict

[hszakher@mastodon.world]

@mike I give it another chance via archive.is link. Otherwise, I don't bother with the article

[b3lt3r@mastodon.b3lt3r.com]

@mike #metoo

[frieke72@mastodon.social]

@mike ‍️ same

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@jokeyrhyme @mike EU should've made adherence to Do Not Track mandatory.

[kryten@veganism.social]

@mike I could be mistaken but I think if you have 3rd party (cross site) cookies blocked in your browser settings it doesn't matter what cookies they try to set.

[nicelady@theforkiverse.com]

@mike I do this too.

If it's something I feel like I "need" to read then I open it in Duck and burn after reading. Don't know if it's ideal but makes me feel better at least.

I'd honestly prefer them to say "we're tracking you and sharing your data to make money" than read "we care about your privacy" one more time.

[bjn@mstdn.social]

@mike Almost the same, I’ll spend a second or two hunting for the “reject all” button in case they’ve hidden it somewhere on the page. If I really really need to read the thing and I can’t find a reject all, or have to disable 7000 different “trusted” associates one by one, I’ll open it in a different brower’s icognito window.

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@mike

That's exactly what I do. I'm not going to jump through hoops. There's no article worth all that, and there's always somebody else who wrote about that topic.

[bjn@mstdn.social]

@bitchboss @mike My worry with “Accept Only Necssary” is what counts as necessary to who?

[bribear@blahaj.zone]

@mike@sauropods.win this is what I have done for years now

[flarzuumi@mastodon.social]

@mike yep, I do this too, the content on a webpage needs to be very darn unique for me to take the trouble to do more than 3 clicks to refuse the cookies. I haven't actually missed anything important in my life since doing this for about the past 5 years

[harold@mastodon.social]

@mike 99% for me

[ulfr@hachyderm.io]

@mike The farthest I go in the absence of "reject all" is click "preferences" and let the browser search for it "after the break", but if it's not there either, the tab is ultimately doomed. @koehntopp

[talexb@fosstodon.org]

@mike Yes! Opebned Facebook and saw a couple of interesting pages. Each one led to that kind of website. Closed the tab, deleted the ad from my feed. #GetRidOfTheJunk