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Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?
Turns out they’re illegal.
@aral Great, those fucking things have been pissing me off for ages now. Maybe now they'll vanish, and if more paywalls come up so be it, I'm rapidly losing interest in bypassing them only to see someone trying to sell me biased info or opinion piece drivel.
@limneticvillains Well, legal clarity is one thing. Enforcement is another. I guess we’ll see.
@aral Someone needs to open up a website where anyone can drop a url that has these bloody tracking things in em and then if confirmed they get listed on a wall of shame.
@limneticvillains unfortunately said website would run out of disk space well before listing them all
@pgcd @limneticvillains @aral
Throw a few spare Google Drive accounts at it, be grand! ;-)
@limneticvillains @aral Already exists, they are called blocklists 
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/easylist_cookie
I don't think that 1 particular block list is effective enough.
I've been running a PiHole with several lists, and uBlock Origin & Ghostery still block even more tracking sites/cookies. And I'm using Firefox with the telemetry disabled, etc (ie. nothing gets reported back to Mozilla).
@limneticvillains @aral Thanks for the idea. We'll see if I fix such website.