Actually the EU laws about "user friendliness" are extremely strict and clear. There MUST be a "accept all" and a "deny all" button equally visible and easy to access, as well as an advanced button that leads to a STRUCTURED and easy to understand selection bit where you can act on individual purposes and on individual "vendors". That's it. 99% of sites are NOT compliant, including many public administration and government sites. But the rules do exist and are clear. All the "legitimate interest" stuff has been thrown in the mud several times by the European court, btw, so any site that displays something along those lines is most probably not compliant, too.

When last month google sites suddenly started showing a 3rd button to reject all, just as big and obvious as the accept all and customize button, I had a sneaking suspicion the eu got on their ass again. The whole situation is still far from perfect, but at least * something * is being done

I've been rejecting cookies since the EU passed that law and it is painful. They really make it as hard as possible to reject, sometimes even swapping button positions and colours to trick you. And if you accidentally click accept.. good luck find those settings ever again.

"Hate yourself? Leafs season tickets on sale now!" Friggin' priceless! As a Wings fan, I approve.

I've always hoped when I click accept all, someone would post me some freshly baked ones.

My general rule for a quick link article website from Twitter or facebook etc. if it doesn't have a reject all button I class it as a spam site and don't visit.

IDCAC is functionally uBlock now, as some pages block content, asking you to accept cookies before allowing to view its content. And Anthony is looking real good

when i accept cookies in a website i go to the store and buy some real cookies so i truly accept cookies in my life

I accept them all, but when the session is over and I close Firefox, I've set it to delete cookies from a long list of sites that I don't have accounts for, so don't need their cookies to stay logged in. Also, I briefly open Firefox once more after that and go through the most recent remaining cookies and delete the ones the automatic deletion missed. (But I leave the cookies for sites I want to stay logged in.) I really hope Firefox will stay around, because it's the only browser I'm aware of having such easy and detailed access to cookies.

I never 'accept all', so I've spent quite a bit of time digging through cookie option menus of various levels of complexity. On a couple of occasions, I just went 'fuck it', and left the website altogether because finding a way to reject cookies was taking so long.

Cookies aren't empty calories, they're calories filled with love!

Samsung smart TVs are the worst for Ad tracking and info sharing. It took me 45 minutes to disagree with all the Ad tracking. 😭

My favourite is the "legitimate interest" cookies you can't find without knowing to look.

Firefox just prompted me about trying their new cookie protection feature which limits cookies to the website you're on. Thanks to this video, I know exactly what that means and why I should accept it!

The "Hate yourself? Leafs season Tickets on sale now!" had me in tears

I like how everyone seems to assume that we can trust that a "reject all" button will do what it claims to, even though it's just a button and could be programmed to do anything.

pro-tip: a lot of websites hide their trackers behind "legitimate interest". this means that even if you click the "deny" button, they still place some (sometimes a lot) third party cookies because they interpret a loophole in the law very liberally. in theory, you should be able to reject their "legitimate interest" as well, but just use the browser's cookie blocking or an extension like ublock origin

The modern internet today is very annoying

Brave does a pretty good job at keeping those annoyances away

How to get rid of intrusive cookie messages using inspect element: 1. Open inspect element by right clicking on the black area. 2. Delete the popup element. 3. If you can scroll, you're done. If you can't scroll, remove "overflow:fixed" or "overflow:hidden", usually found on the tag inside the "style" value (or it could possibly be hidden in a tag). You can also try changing it to "overflow:scroll". Usually it's not in the CSS file, because to display the popup, usually Javascript code is run and it's easier to modify the tag directly than to mess with the CSS file directly. And yes, if you only visit the page once or clear cookies often, this can actually be faster than manually de-selecting all of the options (but if the website has a "Reject all" button, use that instead). Keep in mind that if you refresh or go to another page, the popup will be displayed again.

I don't get it, why is the EU such a big deal? Why are we listening to their dribble about cookies or 30 minute recording limits on cameras? The cookie law sounds good, but obviously no one listened to it, but the other one is just stupid, with absolutely NO good reason for it except to line their politicians' pockets (which is NOT a good thing!) Why is it that they have so much pull?

tbh id rather get ads that are relevant to me then get some random thing i don't want.

I work in data protection in the UK and this video was really good! There’s obviously a lot more detail but in 5 minutes you nailed it in a fun way. I may even reference this video in training going forward!

There’s a simple solution to this: the website negotiates with your browser whether you want cookies or not. That way you’d only have to reject once. But of course there’s way too much money in advertising cookies and the EU does love accepting lobbying cash…

It’s funny how I block all cookies but still get ads from other sites I was just on. It’s also funny how I’m not allowed to use websites unless I allow them to use the cookies

Vivaldi includes a simple version of an auto rejection tool integrated, althought it only works with a few select sites, but if you combine it with other privacy oriented already integrated features, it makes for a quite decent peace of mind.

Thank you for making this. It made me think about it more when visiting sites.

I haven't seen an ad in YEARS on ANY website. ABP, ublock, adblock plus for youtube, I got it all.. I actually forgot ads even exist. And as for........sponsors I just manually skip past.

Thank LMG!! Anthony you are the MVP :D

Thx for the tip about the Cookies extension!

😂😂😂 @ the Leafs column and subsequent ad. Well played.

Pro tip for an added layer of protection: most browsers have an auto delete cookie option that will delete certain levels or all cookies when you completely close all your browser windows

Timely Leafs jokes 🤣

Yooo man thanks for some chill 5 am vibes very informative 💯🙏

Thanks for explaining this Anthony!

I love this guy, More please!

Anthony needs his own LTT channel. This content presented by anyone else, and I wouldn't watch all the way through or just skip forward. Oh, and I like cookies. Watched this while eating Oreos.

the sad thing about the cookies notification is the fact you have no choice. They have already placed cookies even before you accept/deny them, they make denying them as difficult als possible or they even prevent you from accessing the website at all when you deny cookies.

thanks for the extension instroduction and setting recommendation.

U must ACCEPT the cookies. Or the cookie monster will find you. And eat you cookies

The shade thrown at Toronto is great lol

what happens. nothing, absolutely nothing because the next time you visit a site, it asks you again, and again and again !!

Well said! I originally searched for a video on cookies only to find a sea of ignorance. I will always start the hurt on your channel from here on out!🤘🏻

The EU law does not make it illegal to store cookies on the client device without consent. You can store functional cookies without consent. That is stuff like session cookies, shopping cart cookies, etc.

I read most articles through that one-inch sliver at the top of the cookie prompt. Kinda use it as a reading ruler 😅😋

I like the 'reject all' button which is great to see and you give the site a 👍👍👍 and get on with your business.

The ting that upsets me the most about Cookies is that they arnt stored in a folder called "Jar"

I mean why wouldn't you accept all cookies? They are free all you gotta do is click and there are loads of em!

Hey Anthony, you could have mentioned Firefox and Brave browser on mobile operating systems that does have extension support and does block ads and cookies.

0:55 *that follows you on around your web tracking your activities* That animation made me laugh die hard 😂😂😂👌👌

If I remember correctly, the law does not mandate those annoying pop-ups. Technically you need a page like ToS or Privacy Policy or something similar to list what data you are collecting, especially if it's some private data. If you do not collect sensitive data in cookies - no need to do even that. The pop-up appeared as a way for website to cover their asses, in case some data is "leaked", because a lot of them do not care that much about security of the said data.

Bits versus Bytes and how providers make speeds looks faster or slower by changing them

The strange thing I see is that when you go to the "Manage cookies" section it sometimes shows a slider (left to right) for each option, although it doesn't say if right is off or if left is off? The thing getting to me these days is the fact that so many sites have automatic video ads that play. When you are on mobile data it's infuriating as there is no way to turn these off (from what I could find..)

i haven't seen ads in so long i even forgot that they exist. no script is the best invention ever conceived by humanity.

Great information. Thanks!

"Ads?! What is that?" *pouting in confusion behind my adblock*

Do Ctrl+Shift+Del and delete whatever you want, including cookies, case closed. *NEXT!*

thanks was looking for that cookie app :)

The leafs curse follow us everywhere.... WE KNOW THEY WONT WIN BUT CAN WE STILL BELIEVE

thanks for the advice

My favourite are newspapers who only allow you to read the article if you agree with cookies.

Haven't been on the channel for a while. You've been working out and your hair looks healthy asf, thats mad.

Also, you can manually go into browser settings and clear all cookies, which is a good practice once in a while just in case you missed some.

4:20 - this addon is a gold! Sometimes i causes problems (f.e. it breaks Adobe chat) but is is rare.

i love that they put Anthony in a video with cookies!😂😂

You're also forgetting the websites that allow you to deny or to individually select the third parties, and then proceed to ignore your selection and do it anyway.

didnt know about the decline third party coockies option! Thx!

The EU at 3:50 sure looks like my current boss lol.

I also use the extension Cookie AutoDelete which automatically deletes all cookies a tab created after you close it. You can also add white and grey listing for all the websites where you want to be keep logged in. With that you can always accept all the cookies because there are gone after closing the tab and tracking does not work anymore. At least not using cookies, because there are other mechanisms that work without cookies...

You had have added other options to safeguard, say for using incognito mode or clearing your cookies when exiting the browser ( manually or automatically ). Not much but each step helps....

the cookies popup is second to one annoying popup. "this website would like to send you notifications"

Tip: Go into the settings of uBlock Origin and you can enable the annoyances options to prevent cookie banners displaying

I usually use uBlock Origin's zapper tool to delete any cookie boxes that uBlock didn't manage to stop automatically, I have it bound to a keyboard shortcut. There's also CookieAutoDelete extension that can automatically clean up cookies after a set time period once you've left a website/closed a tab.

Yep…been waiting for this one!

Great! I didnt know about that "allow all cookies" button. I can finally rest of clicking accept all on every website I visit

Now I have to check what kind of cookies the ltt store uses^^ (I never was on that site)

Thanks for the tutorial.

1:04 Damn that's cold. 😆

In the UK, websites ask you to accept all biscuits.

I know another kind of cookie banner which is used by many news pages... They don't have a reject button at all, for that you need to pay them... And rejecting specific cookies isn't even possible on these sites, you need to accept every cookie, including trackers... Sadly the EU doesn't care about that, they rather want to supervice every messenger "against child sexual material" by breaking end to end encryption... Every message needs to be decrypted on the device and must be sent to a centralized EU data center in the homeland... The best thing is that they introduced the GDPR in 2018 to prevent such things and now they want to breal their own laws....

I got Last week an ad for a Military drone. idk, why but i like it

I just block all the elements to the cookie demand with my ad blocker and move on with my life, faster than agreeing and then trying to clear it afterward.

You know what, this dude (apologies I don’t know the name) is very accommodating for the camera and audience. Very pleasant viewing, keep it up

If you choose "necessary cookies only" on facebook, the website refuses to load. They don't even give you the choice.

Use the Demodal addon for chrome/edge. It blocks those cookie messages along with those annoying "give us your email" overlay popups.

Quora used to email me asking me if I still wanted to know something I searched for and some other weird uncomfortable stuff, I was wondering if it was cookies at the time

He mispronounced "Happiness Calories"

I like the idea of using Inspect or Developer Console to move the cookie-wall off-screen. But I doubt the sites disable any cookies anyhow. Like mobile apps, once you visit the site, they've already activated them.

i wish they at least made some universal cookie popup that would be used on all sites

Best TechQuickie ever! =)

I knew it was a matter of time before techquickies would bring this up.

What I really hate is how every website has these "accept all" cookies like they're expecting me to be back everyday. I just go on one time to look at a health thing, or a recipe, or a type of screw. Like hundreds of different things each day and everytime it tells me to accept all cookies!

the official EU website is one of the few websites that actually comply with the law properly. in theory, there must not be any dark patterns. the colours, size, font of the accept and deny buttons have to be the same.

I use an extension called cookie Auto delete that gets rid of any cookies once I leave a website. it's great because I can choose what website to accept and keep the first party cookies and obviously block all third-party cookies

When I was in Germany, those cookie popups were the thing I needed German the most for, since they weren't in English

I'd like to see Tom Greene dressed up as a cookie following everyone around in an office.

Ublock origin with "idc about cookies" list is the best

Now I'm in the grey area when it comes to cookies now 🤔😶, I sometimes accept or reject them completely these day's.

3:02 I feel you Anthony.

HAHAHAHA THE LEAFS 😂😂😂