Just ordered from the Adidas website & was immediately struck by the honesty of the sadly inevitable cookie permissions popup options admitting that it's "tracking". Also that when you, again inevitably, have to click through to refuse anything other than "essential" cookies, that's the default (admittedly that's more often the case, but still) & the button reads "Save selections" which is much less confusing that many others I've seen.
If only we didn't need this crap.
#WebDev #Cookies #Privacy
@tdp_org have you seen Consent-O-Matic? At least helps with the click fatigue https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
I've only started using recently but it's making a night and day difference (especially on mobile!)
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@endorama Looks cool but I am super wary of browser extensions, especially any with permissions to read the page content. I'm sure it's fine right now and might be forever but what if someone malicious takes over the extension? Would you know? They could steal *everything* you see/type...Maybe I should take the tin foil hat off now 🤣
@tdp_org i think if you're using an open source extension with enough nerds using it you're reasonably protected
we had a security bug in Tridactyl and released a patch without updating the public source code¹ and people were complaining on Reddit the next day
¹: I still don't know if we were right to do this. Automatic updates in Firefox take a couple of weeks to get distributed. Maybe a malicious actor could have seen the patch, reverse engineered it and found the bug.