Funny you should say that... a friend sent me a page in german yesterday, helpfully linked directly through google translate so I can read it in a language i understand.
Unfortunately, the cookie dialog was missed by "the translation tool" and both accept and reject kinda look the same to me.
I concede that cookie banners are not helpful here. I also admit that I rarely see them anymore, as uBlock Origin removes them for me. I probably shouldn't have assumed that the web I see is the web everyone else sees.
I have uBlock Origin (mind, with the default settings). I also have the Consent-O-Matic autofill extension that's supposed to reject cookies automatically for me.
Neither of them seems to catch cookie dialogs on some german sites. Not that I want uBlock to hide the cookie dialogs, I want them explicitly rejected by the other extension.
Consent-O-Matic does automatically reject most crap on english and romanian sites so I guess they haven't added support for whatever cookie dialog zeit.de uses (and that's popular on german sites?).
> both accept and reject kinda look the same to me
I bet that's very intentional too, and there are other ways to phrase it in German so the two options don't look similar.
Well, I opened them in a plain browser profile and in the non-translated page the options seem clear to me? The buttons literally say this:
- Settings / Einstellungen
- Accept / Akzeptierten
- Reject All / Alle Ablehnen
The English translation is on the buttons in the non-translated page and those translations are fine. There's even a reject all button, which is fine too. The only not so nice thing is that the "Accept" button is coloured green.
Yep I could look it up. But using the same verb looks like an intentional dark pattern to me. And I wasn't interested enough in the article to jump through the hoops.
(Our conversation did make me look it up and neither is 'reject all', they're 'accept all' and 'accept selection').
Unfortunately, the cookie dialog was missed by "the translation tool" and both accept and reject kinda look the same to me.