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JokeI had a rooster that kept us in suspense Pin
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JokeI used to have a hen that would count her eggs every day. Pin
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mmcapps886-May-20 23:31
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I find it astoundingly ironic that in today's "Code Project Insider" mailout, there is this [TechCrunch article] (No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body – TechCrunch[^]), which is purportedly about the report on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the privacy watchdog of the EU.

However, clicking on the link one is immediately confronted with the most blatant example of a "Cookie Consent Wall". TechCrunch, by the way, is part of the Verizon group which includes the likes of Yahoo and Lexology.

This Cookie experience start with a panel offering a brief description of cookies and their potential uses and two choices, agree to everything without giving any consideration to what cookies might be placed and for what purposes, or "Manage Partners".

The Manage Partners Option leads to another panel, this time with some more babble about how Verizon's partners each have their own privacy policies and there are three categories of partner one is expected to wade through if one wishes to fully control cookie placement by Verizon/Yahoo. One is expected to independently navigate to each one and their cookie control mechanisms.

In Foundational Partners, there are 19 links to follow. In IAB Partners, there are 163 individual links to follow and, finally, there is a list of 163 Google partners the settings for which have to be independently managed in the Google "Ad Personalisation" settings.

To add insult to injury, a web search for other news outlets covering the same story initially only produces results from Yahoo and Lexology where one will get exactly the same experience.

Eventually, I was able to locate [the actual report itself] (https://www.dataprotection.ie/sites/default/files/uploads/2020-04/Data%20Protection%20Commission%20cookies%20sweep%20REVISED%2015%20April%202020%20v.01.pdf[^])

These sorts of practice by Verizon, Yahoo Et al. means that I now completely avoid any of their resources and if I ever accidentally land on one of their sites and am presented with this cookie BS, I immediately close the page without reading whatever it was they were trying to encourage me to look at.
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