[testaccount]

While cookies are supposedly a necessary evil, it should be possible to reject them and then let the users suffer viewing a broken website, which requests they accept the necessary cookies to enjoy the platform, rather than bundling all of them into 1 piece

[Avenirio]

Cookies depicted like malicious spies is ridiculous. Internet without cookies is just not good imo. Selling visitor info to commercial companies is a different story. There is ofter a confusion between the two...

[ConcernedCitizen]

Cookies depicted like malicious spies is ridiculous. Internet without cookies is just not good imo. Selling visitor info to commercial companies is a different story. There is ofter a confusion between the two...

I just allow what is necessary and any cookies asking for my browser extensions like those apps that ask for permissions for my contacts are clearly a scam. Honestly, they're not bad, and they make logins easier. But they are being used to exploit privacy and anonymity, as well as sell your metadata to third parties.

[Dismas]

While cookies are supposedly a necessary evil, it should be possible to reject them and then let the users suffer viewing a broken website, which requests they accept the necessary cookies to enjoy the platform, rather than bundling all of them into 1 piece

To be honest, most websites would become dysfunctional. The issue I take with these laws isn't that they are bundling everything into one button, it's that they're attempting to control the functionality of websites through legislation. While I've never complied with GDPR, it's fair to say that almost any forum will utilize cookies to handle a variety of things (login sessions, theme color, etc.). If people were more conscious about their privacy and the function of websites, there wouldn't be a perceived need for these measures.

[Snot13]

cookies are important for surfing, they invented complete nonsense