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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 Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:20PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:20PM (#1089902)

    ... fix your code to be standard compliant and remove those silly requirements on specific user agent strings (read "modern browsers").

    Seriously, this is all "this website is optimized for browser X" from the 1990's all over again, but now without telling this anyone.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 21 2020, @03:42PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 21 2020, @03:42PM (#1089909) Homepage Journal

    User agents are provably all but worthless. Download an addon, tell it whatever you want the world to believe, and browse the web. Almost everything works. It's been a couple years since I started telling the bank that my browser is an Android browser, because the mobile page loads in a very small fraction of the time of the "normal" page.

    On a very rare occasion, some page won't load in one browser or another, so I switch user agent, or switch to another browser with a different set of addons - or I just close the page.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:59PM (#1089916)

    Seriously, this is all "this website is optimized for browser X" from the 1990's all over again, but now without telling this anyone.

    Tried to log in to monster.com on palemoon? This exactly. Such stupidity.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by epitaxial on Monday December 21 2020, @07:45PM

      by epitaxial (3165) on Monday December 21 2020, @07:45PM (#1089997)

      Lol you're visiting a 90s website with a 90s browser.