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by nottorp 493 days ago
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.
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hkwerf 493 days ago
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.
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nottorp 493 days ago
Oh. Very interesting point there.

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.

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hkwerf 493 days ago
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.

Again, I don't want to defend those banners.

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nottorp 493 days ago
My dialogue on zeit.de had:

"Allen zustimmen" "Ausgewahlten zustimmen"

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').

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