On Sun, 1/24/16, david@??? <david@???> wrote:

Subject: Re: [DNG] Ad filtering and blocking
To: dng@???
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 1:18 PM

> Thanks for your reply. I am noticing that since some time ago websites
> are starting to 'brainwash' users to use cookies. This is often done
> by displaying a high contrast banner at the top threatening that by
> using their website one MUST also enable cookies.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this new 'cool feature'?
>
> Edward

Edward, are these sites based in the EU? If it's very little to do with
brainwashing -- at least by the site owners -- and everything to do with
a cretinous law forcing EU-based sites to warn visitors of cookies.
Apparently, at least according to the politicians who handed us this
mess, cookies are the latest and greatest security threat to web users.
More so than government intrusion, man in the middle attacks, forged
site certificates, hacking or other such trivia. :)

Most sites are restricting themselves to a simple warning pop-up to
comply with EU/national regulations (thus avoiding the remote threat of
a prosecution) without getting in the way too much. Daft but true.

Cheers,

Dave H

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I do a lot of custom element blocking in AdBlock which works very well - no popovers and/or overlays and or nag bars allowed here. But sometimes I have to resort to stylish . . .

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