SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by istartedi on Monday December 21 2020, @07:12PM (2 children)
Sometimes you can't close the tab. If the site does that, I go in to task manager and forcefully terminate the process. Such behavior is the definition of malicious, and it's best not to let it go any further. I haven't seen that for a while. Either the browsers got better, or even malware sites realized it was too much.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 21 2020, @08:22PM (1 child)
Ahhhh, back in the days of warez. Click a link, and suddenly you have 3000 popups, popunders, popbesides, popovers, poptarts, and the computer just bogs to a grinding halt. The only way to end it, was to unplug the machine. Since Windows and Internet Explorer keep scrupulous logs, you could go back and see an unending list of the most perverse scams, schemes, ripoffs, etc ad nauseum. Ewwwww!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday December 22 2020, @09:23AM
I had one back in the day. I was doing on-site tech support for a small company. We had a small group of ladies up front in the receptionist office. The older one was married to a pastor and would blush at the idea of an eighth of a boob being shown.
One day, the younger one practically runs up to me and says they need help up front immediately. It sounded urgent, so I quickly make my way there and find very explicit porn pop-ups on one of the computers. The older lady is frantically trying to close the windows, but more keep popping up. "Joe, I can't make them stop." I quickly confirm it's just browser pop-ups, so I give it the single finger salute which cured the problem. (Being reception, customers could have walked in at any time and it was faster than trying to kill them by task manager.) I then turn to her and ask "Where have you been surfing?" The other ladies chuckled but the older lady was a bit flummoxed. It turns out she always went to a particular website by googling it and clicking on the first link without reading what it said. Well, that day, apparently the porn site had out ranked her normal site. She learned an important lesson that day.
Other than the brief teasing remark, I didn't make a big deal out of it which she greatly appreciated. All these years later, I still laugh just thinking about it.