So #Dart can now cross-compile? 🎉 Wow, alert the media! But don't worry, you'll be so distracted by the avalanche of cookie pop-ups and endless dropdown menus that you'll forget why you were even there in the first place. 🍪🔄
https://dart.dev/tools/dart-compile#cross-compilation-exe #CrossCompile #Media #CookiePopUps #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes: an epic showdown of journalism’s finest, brought to you by...JavaScript errors and cookie pop-ups! 🥇🍪 Clearly, the future of investigative reporting involves a battle with your browser settings. 🤦‍♂️💻
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2025 #Pulitzer2025 #Journalism #JavaScriptErrors #CookiePopUps #InvestigativeReporting #HackerNews #ngated

How to bypass and block infuriating #CookiePopups

The explosion of cookie consent popups started in 2018 and is partly the fault of #GDPR. The change was meant to make it easier for people to understand and control how they are tracked online. In reality, it has made the internet even more unusable.
The way many websites have implemented cookie notices hasn’t helped. #DarkPatterns trick people into clicking ‘yes’.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cookie-popup-blocker-gdpr

Testing out a #uBlockOrigin preference to limit these. Settings -> Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> uBlock filters – Annoyances

Let's see how it goes.

#Cookies #CookiePopups #OptOutByDefault

I started closing most of the websites that greet me with #CookieBanners or #CookiePopups immediately. I'd rather not even spend a second on them, even if it means I have to get info from somewhere else..

The latest version of the #Ghostery plugin for #Firefox can now automatically dismiss most #CookiePopups. Yay!