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