This cookie thing

[DimPrawn]

starting to drive me nuts. You visit a website and are confronted with some model popup.

Required cookies
Functional cookies
Advertising cookies
Information storage and access
Personalisation
Ad selection delivery and reporting
Content selection, delivery and reporting
Measurement



FOAD!

[BR14]

starting to drive me nuts. You visit a website and are confronted with some model popup.

Required cookies
Functional cookies
Advertising cookies
Information storage and access
Personalisation
Ad selection delivery and reporting
Content selection, delivery and reporting
Measurement



FOAD!

yeh! - feckin developers!

[NotAllThere]

starting to drive me nuts. You visit a website and are confronted with some model popup.

Required cookies
Functional cookies
Advertising cookies
Information storage and access
Personalisation
Ad selection delivery and reporting
Content selection, delivery and reporting
Measurement



FOAD!

I'm beginning to suspect that the cookie that shows whether you've expressed your cookie preferences already is categorised as "Ad selection, delivery and reporting".

[Eirikur]

starting to drive me nuts. You visit a website and are confronted with some model popup.

Required cookies
Functional cookies
Advertising cookies
Information storage and access
Personalisation
Ad selection delivery and reporting
Content selection, delivery and reporting
Measurement



FOAD!

Use anonymous browsing, just accept everything and it will be deleted off once you close the browser
or delete all cookies after each session manually

[NickFitz]

I came across one the other day with a bunch of categories like that, each with a switch to reject it. So I did. But there was also, in tiny text, a link to expand a list of the companies setting cookies of that type.

So I did that too, and it turned out using the "reject" switches didn't turn all of them off. It took about fifteen minutes to scroll through the lot, as some of the categories had hundreds of entries, and about 15% - 20% of them were still enabled after the main switch was set to "reject"; they all had to be rejected individually.

If I see that again, I'll crack open the browser developer tools and make a bookmarklet to automate the process.

Another annoyance is Quantcast's cookie control panel, used by multiple sites. It seems to have either global or site-specific settings, so you can't assume that your "reject all" will apply to a given site; you have to "view options" or whatever the wording is, and check. And if you "reject all" on a given site, the thing will appear again on that site after a day or two, retaining the setting of all rejected but usually only offering an "accept all" button to get rid of it, so you have to dig down again to confirm the "reject all" option.

Bunch of gits, they are

[BrilloPad]

Double chocolate chip for me please.

[Dark Black]

Double chocolate chip for me please.

White chocolate and raspberry

[GJABS]

Fortune for me.

[Hobosapien]

Boycott sites that still rely on cookies and have a poorly implemented intrusive cookie policy and use those that have moved away from cookies to HMTL5 local storage instead.

[xoggoth]

Boycott sites that still rely on cookies and have a poorly implemented intrusive cookie policy and use those that have moved away from cookies to HMTL5 local storage instead.

Not heard of that. Have to look into it.
PS Look similar to PHP session cookies?