Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The choice is recorded in a consent cookie
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you’ll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don’t break from the rejection.
Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They’ll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.
tl;dr: “Reject All” will not break the site.
Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you’ll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don’t break from the rejection.
Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They’ll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.
My flow is usually:
[when my cookie auto decline eztension doesn’t work]