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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: 2) by helel on Monday December 21 2020, @04:46PM (5 children)

    by helel (2949) on Monday December 21 2020, @04:46PM (#1089927)

    Another (Safari specific?) solution I use is to default to opening pages in "Reader." Not every site supports it but all the news sites and blogs do and Reader mode ignores those cookie banners, most advertising, menus, and other cruft of the modern web.

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @06:22PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @06:22PM (#1089959)

    Safari is a POS. Get a grown up's OS while you're at it. Have some self respect!

    • (Score: 2) by helel on Monday December 21 2020, @08:15PM

      by helel (2949) on Monday December 21 2020, @08:15PM (#1090007)

      So would you recommend giving all my browsing history to Microsoft or Google? Perhaps letting Firefox feed every site I visit to Mindshare/GroupM is the "grown up" choice?

      Yes, I'm aware there are some more fringe choices available, but Safari respects my privacy and works well for everything except googles triple E additions to the web and I don't really consider that much of a downside.

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Tork on Monday December 21 2020, @08:47PM (1 child)

      by Tork (3914) on Monday December 21 2020, @08:47PM (#1090024)
      Perhaps Safari's the biggest pile of trash there is, but it uses resources far more efficiently than Chrome. Given that a large portion of safari users are running from a battery of some sort, that matters.

      One place I worked at earlier this summer had to disable Chrome on loads of remote machines because its pigginess was interfering with the processes that handles screen encoding, adding latency to the UI and slowing down productivity.

      Google was a fair shade better back when they were hungry, now I feel like I'm reliving the Internet Explorer days.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @10:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2020, @10:01PM (#1090050)

        I had google chrome open for a couple of days on my laptop because a site (starbux for life) didn't open properly on FF. After a while I noticed chrome was using 100% on both cpus. Don't know WTF it was doing but I would guess mining bitcoin.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2020, @01:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2020, @01:36AM (#1090086)

      Maybe you should learn the difference between a browser and an operating system before passing out advice like this.