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GitHub Removes its Annoying Cookie Banners

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 21 2020, @12:23PM   
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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Original Submission

• Re:One site down, a billion more to go... (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:55PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @03:55PM (#1089915)

  I generally just close the tab, and don't look back.

  [page detects your cursor moving up towards the tab] "It looks like you are trying to navigate away from our site! Don't forget to take our OTHER survey on RankWanker first and give our site five stars!"

  (I've actually seen this sort of bullshit on some sites. Thank goodness CTRL-F4 and ALT-F4 are still around)

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