Hands-On Tech 291

On this episode of Hands-On Tech, Bill writes in to ask what cookies actually do, whether rejecting them on every site’s banner accomplishes anything real, and whether there’s a way to stop being asked dozens of times a day.

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Links

• Using HTTP cookies - Mozilla
• Online privacy - Your Europe
• Senate Bill 359 of 2025
• Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence
• Report of the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce
• Do Cookie Banners Respect my Choice?
• Consent-O-Matic
• DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections - DuckDuckGo
• Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners - Brave
• Block cookie banners on Firefox - Mozilla
• uBlock Origin
• Prevent cross-site tracking in Safari on Mac
• Next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome
• Delete, allow, and manage cookies in Chrome - Chrome Help
• Take control of your privacy
• Global Privacy Control
• Digital Package