Cookie Privacy Notifications

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Endless Webshite access confirmations and cookie acceptances due to the tightening of data protection laws, the cunts!

These intrusions into any Web browsing are really boiling my piss and costing me a new phone every couple of weeks. I must stop hurling them at the wall in frustration. Wtf is a cookie anyway? I thought it was American for biscuit, what have biscuits got to do with websites.

No doubt the whole load of bollocks originated from the EUeeeewwhhh, nuff said. Fuck off!

Nominated by: Another Cunting Mess

37 thoughts on “Cookie Privacy Notifications”

  1. Yes, they’re all a bit of a cunt. Cookies are literally named after fortune cookies, storing little bits of data to make your ‘browsing experience’ quicker. GDPR is a bunch EU regulations referring to data privacy but it’s the EU’s article 13 that should worry you…

    Morning all, hope you’re not as hungover as I am!

  2. The cookie/privacy notifications came into force in early 2018 when the General Data Protection Regulation went live thanks to the EU.

    In one respect its supposedly a good thing as it gives you, the mug punter, more control over how your personal information is used by 3rd parties. Which is why your prompted to either “accept” or “customise” the cookies that are about to land on your device and gather your data.

    However, the bottom line is that you’ll always get these notifications, especially if you clear out your browser history whenever you close your browser for the day (depending on your settings). Once you’ve done a clear out the next time you go to the same site you’ll get the same notifications again!

    It’s all a load of time-wasting bollocks really; GDPR is a cumbersome piece of shit that offers you some protection, but we all know that people will get so fed up trying to flag what PI can an can’t be collected that they’ll think “fuck it!” and just click “accept” and the cookies will gather everything they can, and bug you with more spam later on!

    • Because this annoyance is an EU regulation, will it no longer apply here once we (hopefully) become independent on January 1st 2021?

      • There will be a watered down version of “GDPR” post-transition (mooted to be called “UK GDPR”), along with something called the “ePrivacy and Electronic Communications Regulation” (primarily an IT thing that I’ve been trying to get my head round for my customers in preparation for when transition finally ends)

        Some form of data privacy compliance between the EU and us (as a “third country”) will still be enforced post transition. EU GDPR may still have to be observed for any UK business dealing with EU businesses.

        All this was supposed to be ratified during the transition period up to 31st December 2020; but with the dink virus throwing a big spanner in the works there are considerable delays in getting all this done by the deadline. There are even suggestions that the TP might be extended for another year because of the pandemic.

      • Thanks for that, Techno.

        As for extending the transition period, I’ve been warning of the likelihood of that happening ever since the shitty Withdrawal Agreement, “the second worst deal in history” as Sir Nigel put it, was ratified by Parliament last year. With Covid they now have the perfect excuse to extend it in perpetuity should it so suit, costing us a further £18 billion per annum straight in to the EU coffers.

      • How exactly “has the dink virus [been] throwing a big spanner in the works“, Techno? A genuine question there btw. I am struggling to see how working from home, Zoom meetings & c would delay the ratification process. I would have imagined the replacing of physical meetings and conferences with their virtual analogues might reasonably be expected to actually speed things up a little. Do you have any more information about the details?

        HM Passport Office is similarly hiding behind Flu Manchu to excuse their shockingly slow turnaround times. Quite apart from the greatly reduced number of new applications and renewals this year (as you would expect) all these civil servants have been contiguously employed since Mar 23 and for them the changeover to home working was effectively (or logically should have been) a substantial productivity booster.

        Curiously, many other countries (Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Norway and Czech Republic to my sure knowledge) are experiencing no such delays in issuing their passports this year. It seems that this particular symptom of n-covid-19 is peculiar to these Isles.

        Didn’t the Passport Office once have a large presence in Liverpool? On second thoughts, that might explain things.

      • Depends on your media source. Some Lefty papers suggest an extension, while the more centrist and soft-right wing prefer to stay within the current time-frame.

        But then again I recall reading an article in the Telegraph back in March suggesting the government is/was seeking a “mutually agreed” extension, due to a large number of civil servants from pertinent departments having to be reassigned to deal with Covid-19.

        The government can request this under the “Withdrawal Agreement” whereby the UK can request an extension of anything up to 2 years beyond the original TP (so end of 2022).

        Boris denied any such extension was being mooted. But what Boris says and what Boris actually does are two totally different things!

        However, as you rightly point out, in this age of WfH and VCC, there really shouldn’t be the need for any delays. But as we all know civil servants have their own monomaniacal agendas when it comes to delaying Brexit.

      • Ahhh, that old chestnut: “reassigned to deal with Covid-19.” Whilst authentic for a handful, in reality this applies to very few. Even the piss-poor excuse itself demonstrates an embarrassing lack of imagination by HMG and their civil servants.

        I’d personally lay the blame more in the direction of the “Liverpool effect” (loc cit) than any intentional obfuscatory activity aimed at stymieing Brit-exit. First and foremost, many/most/a lot of¹ these people are LAZY CUNTS, the rest is incidental. If they are monomaniacal, it is chiefly in their quest to do as little as possible, while taking care not to lose their cushy “iron rice bowl” job. I also know this for a certain fact.

        ¹ delete to taste

  3. Totally agree. Every fucking day I log on to the same newspaper site, and every fucking day I have to “accept” the bloody site. Simple minded pointless meddling – the epitaph of the raddled EU

    • Couldnt agree more. Why dont these fucking sites REMEMBER my settings (no thanks to everything) anytime I visit them.

  5. Morning.
    These cookies tailor adverts as well as gathering your data,
    So say you googled a pair of handmade boots,
    You get constant ads for them.
    Invasive little buggers,
    I resent having my data compiled, so try to ‘reject all’.
    But still get loads of adverts aimed at parting me from money.

    • I’d love to see the adverts on Jess Phillips computer – strap-on’s, dildos, rubber knickers, rugby shorts….

  6. I’m still getting ads from some clothing firm mentioned by Mr.Cunt-Engine a couple of weeks ago….flamboyant clothes for the flamboyant gentleman…at least it seems to limit itself to shirts… presumably the “arseless leather chaps’ range will make itself known following an initial order.

    If these people seriously imagine that their cookies enable them to identify likely customers, they’re wrong.If I wanted to look like a contestant in the “Gay Mr. Hawaii, 1972” competition I certainly wouldn’t be paying their prices for the privilege.

  7. On some sites I find it impossible to decline their shite and just wont use it again. Useless cunts.

  8. I for one agree with our invisible nominator.

    (Perhaps he didn’t want his privacy invaded; or perhaps the other admin forgot to add him! – DA)

    The smarter and better looking admin or Night Admin as he’s known – didn’t write up this nom, so not guilty – Night Admin.

    • Actually, if they deliberately haven’t been added to fit in with the theme of the nom that is actually pretty funny.

    • “The one in the braces, he dunnit” as the late Spike Milligan as Buttons would have said.

      No idea why my name was omitted as nominator. Shame it was only my second as well.

      Thanks for owning the nom. I fixed it so it shows you nominated it. – Night Admin

      • Apologies for the misquoted scene above. Those eagle eyed of you will note that the quote is by G*d in the Dead Bishop Sketch by Monty Python….

  9. Going off at a tangent, is it just me and my telly or is it very hard to stop the next episode of whatever I’m watching on Netflix? I swear they’ve made it so difficult that in the end you think fuck it, and watch another – might it boost their viewing figures or summink? Either way its a fucking nuisance.

    • Netflix Help says:

      1. From a web browser, go to your Account page.
      2. Open the Profile & Parental Controls settings for the profile you want to manage.
      3. Change the Playback settings.
      4. Uncheck the option to Autoplay next episode in a series on all devices.
      5. Select Save.

      Or just use the remote to stop playing it I guess.

  11. This mither is all just window dressing.
    All the tech companies sell store and pass round everyone’s data persistently and give not one duck about it as long as it enriches them further.
    Anyhow,it’s fucking irritating and they are woke cunts to boot so really should Fuck Off.

  13. What annoys me is that the cookie notification seems to be implemented differently. Sometimes you can reject all or accept all, sometimes you can accept just the functional cookies and reject the analytic/marketing ones, sometimes you just have to accept and there’s some info about how we use your information. Some bring up a list of about 200 shitty ad/marketing companies and there doesn’t seem to be a button to turn them all off at once. Time wasting cock womble.

  14. If the cookie notification doesn’t let me dismiss it, I just get out of the site. Simple as.

    Oh for the days when you’d click on a website and get the little digging-man ‘under construction’ sprite.

  15. Many years ago I owned an Internet security company so I am well up with this shit.
    All my computers change the cookies to something ridiculous for the idiots to read, also all the computers have the ‘hosts’ file modified, an example of the core with modifications I use: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/

    Just like the British did in WW2, beat the pricks by continuously providing false information to the enemy.
    About 11% of all the data requests to you browser are tracking requests. It’s a bit involved to explain here but every time I log into Gmail they think I am using another computer and ask to verify it can be trusted. Fucking wanks, they are the ones not trusted, Fuck the Cloud and Fuck big business, track me, you track fuck all…

  16. Pain in the digital arse, exactly like the filthy legislation which gave it birth, GDPR. If you follow the options on these popups you are intentionally directed to a maze of legalese, and if you did that for every site, you’d never get off the PC. So you accept and hope for the best, as long as your browser is set to wipe the cookies at the end of the session. You can compound the entertainment by using NoScript, which will painstakingly inform you whenever a site is trying to run a script on your box. This too is a pain in the arse, as the GDPR script won’t run because it’s blocked by NoScript, so you have to allow it too.

    Incidentally, it is amazing the amount of other irrelevant shite that you are downloading alongside useful content, and this has taken a sharp upturn lately.

  17. What gets me is why cookies and tracking people’s activity on the internet is even a thing. Why, why, fuckity why?

    Oh right, so some cunts can make money off it!

    Yet another case of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

    The internet wasn’t intended to facilitate spam email, host free pornography or track everything everybody does. Something good ruined by cunts.

    • You can understand now the sudden push to get everyone using apps (cashless banking, utility bill payments, entertainment bookings, etc) so they can track your movements as well as gather your personal information.

      Not only are you fucked with inquisitive cookies, but some of the apps you download want permission to access your photos, phone contacts, location, emails, text messages etc. even though the app itself should have absolutely no requirement to do so. (for example, why would a clock app want access to some or all of the above? But if you don’t allow access you won’t be able to download the app)

      • “Yes to all” that, TC. I recently got my first Android device, in order to get up to date ( ca 2010) and it’s really scary how much of the (originally ‘Nix) system’s been perverted to make sure Google has its claws into everything you do. Contemplating throwing the fucker away again, but maybe it will be worth perverting it back into something useable for basic existence?

      • Yep, I’ve noticed that too, Techno.

        The amount of crap I have to run on my Windoze laptop, just to give me some sense of privacy and not being watched the whole fucking time.

        I use Duck Duck Go for searches. Then we have:
        – Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
        – Ad Block Plus
        – Video Autoplay Blocker
        – Norton Internet Security
        – Ghostery
        – Privacy Eraser

        Plus a few other things. Then you have to turn off or disable all kinds of crap in Windoze itself, including that bitch Cortana who seems hell bent on spying on everything.

      • Windows is a well-known virus, of course and on a new install it is as well to hunt out everything you can disable and disable it. ABP is useful on any system, and Firefox itself will allow (some) video and audio autoplay blocking.

        Duckfuckandgo additionally connects to something called “improving duckduckgo.com” on every search. While DDG insists it’s above the crude commercial data-trawling fray, no-one is immune it seems.

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