Is there a difference in the ones you have to push accept versus the ones you can simply click the x to close it?

Any ways to make the same websites that ask to stop asking? Looking at you harborfrieght.com

11/23/2024 6:47:19 PM

Any thoughts on this? Or at least what is best practices when dealing with cookies etc

12/3/2024 10:30:25 PM

Sorry, unable to edit



Here is an example

12/4/2024 12:59:27 AM

Pretty sure there are extensions/ad blockers that are supposed to be able to block those.

As far as X vs accept, not sure whether that's standardized behavior. Probably depends on how each site implemented their cookie handling.


[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 7:35 AM. Reason : wouldn't be surprised if X = Accept for many sites]

12/4/2024 7:34:00 AM

Quote :

"wouldn't be surprised if X = Accept for many sites"

Well that sure is sneaky of them!

12/4/2024 9:54:04 AM

Tangentially related, how often are you deleting your cookies on your phone, PC, mac devices?

10/23/2025 2:10:55 AM

Auto-deleted at browser close.

10/23/2025 7:21:34 AM

I need to look into that. Tired of texting someone something, or searching something, and then seeing ads for it on facebook. Really random ass shit too

10/23/2025 12:54:29 PM

it is annoying as shit to have to reject them all constantly.

10/25/2025 1:26:05 AM

^

[Edited on December 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM. Reason : Wish there was something that could be done]

12/2/2025 1:53:59 AM

as far as i recall, cookies aren't used as a core part of ad tracking and haven't been for years

ELI5:

everything about you is built into a profile. those profiles are aggregated up into giant data pools. an algorithm figures out who is in what segment of users at ad bid time (the milliseconds between when you ask the internet for a page or more feed content and it sends it to you), then you get an ad for that thing if you're in the segment of people likely to buy. the reason why you see the ads so quickly is because there's an entire secondary market of data brokers sharing that shit amongst themselves nearly immediately. also because of easily modelled human behavior, you're falling into lookalike audiences

12/2/2025 11:06:19 AM