[Anduia]

To the authors of the site, please know that your current "Cookiebot by Usercentrics" is old and pretty much illegal. You shouldn't need to click 5 times to "Reject all" if accepting all is one click. Newer versions have a "Deny" button.

[esskay]

Weirdly this site also requested bluetooth access on my mac.

[azalemeth]

That would be the browser fingerprinting in action. I often get a lot of requests to use widevine on ddg's browser on android (which informs one about it) for I suspect similar reasons.

[esskay]

Interesting, I'm on Brave and have never had a site request bluetooth access before, so much so that I'd never even granted Brave bluetooth access, hence why it popped up as a system notification this time around.

[nic547]

Doesn't Brave disable WebBluetooth by default via a flag?

[sharken]

Brave indeed does block WebBluetooth by default, but it can be turned on by the user using flags.

It's by no means a new feature, but the privacy concerns outlined in this post are still valid 10 years later: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/w3c-web-bluetooth-api-privacy...

[8cvor6j844qw_d6]

Interesting. Is this fingerprinting in action? I have Widevine disabled on Brave desktop (don't recall if this is default), occasionally I get Widevine permission request on some sites.

[slig]

Just set up your browser to never even load that BS.

[Anduia]

I cannot audit and report GDPR violations if I do that.

[anothernewdude]

Or you could just reject all third party cookies, see no sites break and enjoy your privacy.

[popcornricecake]

Doesn't spare you from having to interact with the popup. This is probably the single dumbest law to ever have been made. It wastes everyone's time, and not insignificantly. While the browser is and always was in full control of cookies, nobody checks whether the popup actually even does what it says. And since it's a waste of your time in the first place, who takes the time to report illegal ones, much less has any interest to do so, because where you saw it is where you will likely never visit again anyway.

If anything browsers should be simply rejecting all cookies by default, and the user should only be whitelisting ones they need on the few sites where they need it.

[sebastiennight]

I don't think the lawmakers planned for the level of malicious compliance that would be deployed.

[anothernewdude]

I didn't see a pop-up on the site at all.

[nxpnsv]

Single dumbest law ever made? I think that’s underestimating the stupidity of many laws.

[popcornricecake]

Possibly. I just can't think of other stupid ones that have a comparably wide impact.