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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by GJABS View Post
    Fortune for me.
    Monster!

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  • Hobosapien
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Not heard of that. Have to look into it.
    PS Look similar to PHP session cookies?
    HTML5 offers session storage (works as expected) as well as local storage which is permanent until someone actively clears it down, both implemented via javascript.

    Worth looking into to see what advantages/disadvantages there are based on your needs, now HTML5 is supported by all the important browsers.

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  • xoggoth
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    Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
    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?

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  • Hobosapien
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    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.

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  • GJABS
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    Fortune for me.

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  • Dark Black
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Double chocolate chip for me please.

    White chocolate and raspberry

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  • BrilloPad
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    Double chocolate chip for me please.

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  • NickFitz
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    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

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  • Eirikur
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    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

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    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".

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  • BR14
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    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!

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  • DimPrawn
    started a topic This cookie thing

    This cookie thing

    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!

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