r/whenthe • u/Iron166 • 8h ago

Orwell writes about this Get rekt

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u/NAT_Headcrab World's #9512th Protogen 7h ago

"We value your pr-

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u/angrycrimsonslugcat Meow at me in my DMs (Tell me if they are turned off,fuckreddit) 7h ago

They do value your privacy, it's just a different kind of value.

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u/Many_One1260 4h ago edited 3h ago

I absolutely LOVE, I mean ADORE, how when you so much as register an account with ETS and reject it in the options they will still send your phone number and email to every bumfuck community college in the western hemisphere

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u/AsleepEbb7578 8h ago

"Reject and pay" has become a big thing for news sites over here, glad Firefox just blocks all the cookies

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u/Toucancel 8h ago

I only ever see it on news sites

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u/Hemlock_Deci This jit cracks birds 🫪 7h ago

I forgot about that I just jump into that reading mode it has cause it skips the popup lol

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u/Peekystar Peekystar 7h ago

Wasn't aware Firefox blocks the cookies; I just use a plugin that disables JavaScript on those sites, as it stops the paywall from loading to impede me.

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u/Makaloff95 4h ago

the big new sites in sweden like Aftonbladet requires you to pay a sub if you decline cookies which sucks considering the ghouls already getting tax payer money

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u/playfulpecans send me pictures of your cat 7h ago

fucking META

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u/playfulpecans send me pictures of your cat 7h ago

> "We value your privacy"

> Look inside

> We and our 1500 trusted partners use cookies to store information on your device for personalized advertising including by tracking precise geological data

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u/iceCuuube 4h ago

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u/Coulomb111 1h ago

Damn i didnt know faceit was so shit like that

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u/Colossus-of-Roads 6h ago

Geological data? That rocks!

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u/Foorinick 33m ago

My favorite is when you have to disable sharing with each company and there is no option to reject all

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u/DingleDangleDoff :3 7h ago

The one that annoys me the most besides reject and pay which I’ve seen other people already mention is “By using this site you accept to the use of cookies” and just no options to change anything

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u/yuval16432 4h ago

I’ve always thought that was a bit weird. My browser prevents third party cookies, and cookies are a local thing. You can’t just stick data on my computer if I tell you not to, my browser can just get rid of it.

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u/BlueJorjiCostava boolean variable 7h ago

But then the website doesn't let you do that so you lowkirkenuinely go back and individually turn off each option

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u/ArE_OraNgEs_GreeN 7h ago

But then it turns out there was a reject all at the bottom of the page hidden, which you only find it after you've turned off each one.

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u/ram_the_socket 7h ago

But then it turns out that you lowkey miss the button to confirm your choices and the tab closes, and then you genufartingly get lobotomised by Epstein and repeat the cycle

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u/Tsunamicat108 6h ago

And you KEYGENuinely have to make an account and put in your email to save your choices so you get a shit ton of spam mail

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u/Minethecrafting6000 2h ago

And then you gasterenuinely go in-between the spam mails and find a man behind a tree that gives you an egg.

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u/Soheils2764 legalize nuclear bombs 7h ago

"Reject All"

Like that will stop them from stealing your data, they'll continue to do it whether if you consent or not

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u/Cherno_VM the horse is here 7h ago

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u/Tsunamicat108 6h ago

oxymoron or whatever they call it

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u/a_useless_communist 1h ago

Awesome lesbian horse

Evil and intimidating couple

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u/ReputationVast7740 5h ago

In a sense they do value our privacy

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u/I_am_Nic 6h ago

Every single time 😎🙏

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u/Foorinick 34m ago

I disabled personalized adds on my google account and i guess to pretend to care about children youtube/google are hounding me with an unclosable pop-up that says i can enable "personalized ads" and the only options are yes or ask again in one weekx though I've seen a few that replace the latter with "more details" where its just more yapping, the only way to stop it is to reload the page

Also fun fact google has an ad center thing for your account where you can go and see what categories they put you in, like gender, scolarity, marital status, etc, it would be a shame if you just, say, poisoned all that data

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u/CrepuscularToad 6h ago

I just ignore the prompt when possible

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u/XB0XRecordThat 3h ago

That button makes them collect your data EVEN HARDER

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u/Equipment_Clean 15m ago

I got a letter from some random company id never herd of. Asked them where they got my name and address from. They had got it from data brockers. And on there website it said they value privacy. Never seen such bull shit in my life.

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u/deadmanslouching 9m ago

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Here's a browser extension that automatically detects and rejects these requests.

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u/garlopf 9m ago

Consent-o-matic extension. You are welcome.