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GDPR is a Cookie Monster!

posted by martyb on Friday August 31 2018, @07:40AM   
from the how-the-cookie-crumbles dept.

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The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May 2018 and requires that companies obtain explicit permission from individuals to utilize their data. Since the GDPR became enforceable, the number of third-party cookies found on news websites in Europe declined by 22%, according to a study by Reuters Institute.

Between April and July, Reuters researchers analyzed about 1 million content requests from more than 200 news publishers in the EU. They found that the number of third-party cookies used per webpage declined from about 80 in April to about 60 in July.

[Ed note: I use the "Cookies Exterminator" add-on for Pale Moon that, except for my white-listed web sites, removes all cookies after something like a 15-second delay. How do you keep your cookies under control? --martyb]

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• Re:How do you keep your cookies under control? (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @03:24PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @03:24PM (#728780)

  Then set Prefs==>Privacy to Custom Settings, check everything except "Always...", Accept 3rd-party cookies never, and you're almost done. Now after browsing a set of pages, hit Ctl-Shift-Delete, change the time thing to forever, check all the boxes you can. You should do Ctl-Shift-Delete frequently during the day, especially before & after doing anything financial. It isn't that hard.

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