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GitHub Removes its Annoying Cookie Banners

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 21 2020, @12:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-good-start dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

GitHub removes its annoying cookie banners:

Cookie banners are one of the most annoying parts of browsing the web, forcing you to click accept or deny on multiple sites. Microsoft-owned GitHub is starting to address this aggravation by removing cookie banners from its site this week. "At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution," explains GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. "After a brief search, we found one: just don't use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really."

GitHub, which operates independently from Microsoft, has now removed all nonessential cookies, meaning the site doesn't send any information to third-party analytics services. This is a change that's turned into a commitment, so GitHub will only ever use cookies that are required and none to track, display ads, or send information elsewhere.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday December 21 2020, @01:25PM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday December 21 2020, @01:25PM (#1089878) Journal

    That's commendable. Doubly so, because it's actually goodness at Microsoft.

    Well, to render third party cookies uselessly ineffective on other sites, use Privacy Badger as a complement to AdBlock.
    PB can block cookies selectively, while AB helps to get rid of those annoying cookie banners.

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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday December 21 2020, @02:33PM (1 child)

    by bart9h (767) on Monday December 21 2020, @02:33PM (#1089892)

    That's commendable. Doubly so, because it's actually goodness at Microsoft.

    TFS says "GitHub, which operates independently from Microsoft,"

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @05:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @05:46PM (#1089948)

      That is indeed what the marketing says.