Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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    11 months ago

    Please don’t the 17 attempts for me to surrender my cookies are already exhausting my willingness to use the web.

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      11 months ago
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      These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.

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        11 months ago

        I often decline their cookie bull, they’ll just keep asking with every new page i load from that website. Preferably with a pop-up that covers 2/3rd of the screen.

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          11 months ago

          I think but haven’t done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:

          1. go to website, receive prompt
          2. decline all non-required cookies
          3. go to next page within website, receive prompt again
          4. decline all but functional cookies (or similar wording
          5. go to next page, no prompt.
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          11 months ago

          If you can figure out which script is responsible for the pop-up, it’s usually possible to block it by, for instance, feeding its URL to your ad blocker. Just takes a bit of patience.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        Today’s Internet is so much worse than the Internet a decade ago… Exponentially higher speeds, yet everything runs way slower and you have to dig for anything you want out of a sea of that