This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.
Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.
When uou accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension “I still don’t care about cookies”
Where I assume they collect it anyway because I didn’t disagree
Pretty sure they collect it regardless of you disagreeing or not. Block all cookies by default always unless you are on a site where you need to log in.
If I recall, the extension tries to disagree, then just hide the popup and finally it will resort to agreeing. Works remarkably well. Sometimes there is a broken scrollbar or site but its an easy fix: Disable, disagree manually, enable.
Little known fact, it’s illegal to hide the option to reject cookies behind multiple clicks.
it’s illegal
Where? and who enforces it?
In the EU. It must be as easy to select no as it is to select yes. Afaik, each country has its own agency that you can contact about violations.
Europe. The European countries. Some more some less
I know that but it doesn’t really change anything. I’m not going to sue each and every website because of that
You don’t have to sue anyone. You can ask the offenders to correct their website and if they don’t, give a notice to the data protection authority in your country and they will handle it from there.
Enable the annoyances/cookies list in uBlock origin and forget about them
But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless
Firefox (or Librewolf) + Ublock Origin, done.
Not difficult
At least one tabloid newspaper in Finland (Iltalehti) has put the settings behind a paywall. Accept tracking or pay up.
I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.
