• rotkehle @feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    in Germany there's a (somewhat) new law that makes it mandatory for all websites to ask you if it can store cookies on your harddrive. since then every time you visit a new page or on a new installation you have to click through three pop-ups, it's sooooo annoying to navigate the internet since then. so yeah this feature is more then welcome here ^^

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      1 year ago

      I think it's the same for whole EU. I'm forced to click even though I'm not from Germany.

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        1 year ago

        And the thing is afaik in the EU websites cant save anything nonessential unless you actively opt-in. In other countries its opt-out. So blocking cookie banners while not strictly cleaning or blocking may be harmful for privacy

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        1 year ago

        okay. my bad it's apparently EU wide. so then it doesn't make sense for Firefox to only do that in Germany.