@mullvadnet We will all be outlaws soon.

@talexb The next step is to delete Facebook itself

@bjn @bitchboss Fair point. We all know what "necessary" ACTUALLY means, but that doesn't mean they're not maliciously interpreting it differently!

@cvtsi2sd Yes, I do that, too. There is something satisfying about clicking Accept All in a new anonymous window, and imagining them thinking "Aha, new data!" little knowing it's all about to evaporate

@lazyb0y Yes, quite!

@pthane There is no such thing.

(Also: doesn't that mean they're admitting all the others are not legitimate?)

@gim @jokeyrhyme Consent-o-matic great so far as it goes, but it only handles a small subset of the sites I follow links to.

@jessuvaleria Yes, exactly. And OMG all the "subscribe" and "allow notifications" popups!

@gjm Yikes. Maybe some browser-side Just Don't Store Cookies Except Ones I Make An Exception For extension is necessary.

@glynmoody I wonder whether sites that don't have a Deny All button have any idea how much business they're losing.

@jokeyrhyme Yes, exactly. Under what circumstances would any informed person EVER do anything other than Deny All?

Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.

If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.

But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.

I wonder how many others do this.

And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.

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UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!

@MicroSFF And it doesn't even work.

A colleague is proposing a conference talk entitled "Moving Fast And ... Maintaining Things?".

I'd buy that.

@firefoxwebdevs "AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful."

Have you? Because I've literally only heard the former. See e.g. virtually every one of the 966 comments on https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922

"We often hear that Europeans don’t have, like Americans, the "success culture." Those examples, and there are many more, prove the opposite. Europeans like success. But they often don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. Instead, they tend to consider success a collective endeavour."

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

@petersuber In context, it's clearly "Do you want AI results included in search results by default?"