mastodon - Link to source
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.

🍪 There's one thing we can all agree on: we're fed up with misleading cookie banners. 🚫 And we finally have a chance to get rid of them!

💡 The solution? Simple! Express your privacy preferences once, for example via your browser or device, and have them respected permanently.

📃 A proposal to end this tracking circus is currently on the table of EU lawmakers – and could easily simplify things for everyone in the European Union.

➡️ killthecookiebanner.eu/

Kill the Cookie Banner!

killthecookiebanner.eu
This entry was edited (Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 11:20 AM)
in reply to noyb.eu

mastodon - Link to source

noyb.eu

✊ Together with @beuc , @checkmyads , Civil Liberties Union for Europe, @edri , @eff , Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland, @apti , @HomoDigitalisGR , Digihumanism - Centre for AI & Digital Humanism, and Sustainable Computing Lab, noyb has therefore joined a campaign to make this happen – and #KillTheCookieBanner!
#killthecookiebanner @Electronic Frontier Foundation @EDRi @The Consumer Voice @ApTI @Homo Digitalis @checkmyads

reshared this

in reply to noyb.eu

mastodon - Link to source

Har-Har Links

I find the benefit of this a bit unclear. Yes clicking away cookie banners is annoying. We have some technical workarounds to make it easier like consentomatic.au.dk/ or i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/. The issues I see are the dark patterns used in practice, not to mention simple noncompliance with the existing law, and it being way too difficult to penalize this. Are there materials that explain more about why this campaign considers this a good change?

I don't care about cookies

Get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites!
I don't care about cookies
in reply to Har-Har Links

mastodon - Link to source

noyb.eu

@HarHarLinks Hi there! We will provide more information on the website explaining how the solution could look like in practice asap. In short, we favor an approach where a third-party agent can manage such requests and give (based on user choices) specific consent to individual controllers.

You can check out ADPC or navigator.consent for examples for how this can be implemented technically

@Har-Har Links
in reply to noyb.eu

mastodon - Link to source

Har-Har Links

Thanks for replying, I look forward to more updates.

Should I not be concerned that solutions with detailed presets like in the navigator.consent demo actually widen the tracking fingerprint surface for bad actors? I understand that anything not sufficiently common I send into the internet is another identifying datum, lessening my privacy stance.

The convenience through technology is nice, but no solution to a problem of a policy not having sufficient teeth to enforce it.

in reply to noyb.eu

mastodon - Link to source

softproof

The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.

So glad to read some concerted action is at least afoot to try stop this constant cookie harassment. Thanks for the heads-up!

I got so miffed by this scam that a few years back I made a T-shirt to tell others how I felt...
No one even commented on it, let alone agreed. Oh well, let's hope the pros get better results.

in reply to noyb.eu

mastodon - Link to source

Electropict

Sensitive content

⇧