I am going to use this opportunity to ask: Why is that stackoverflow sites absolutely, positively cannot seem to remember my cookie preferences and seemingly ask me every single time I find myself there?
It's because they are using a third-party (cookielaw.org) cookie to record the your choice. So if your browser is configured to not allow third-party cookies - e.g. Safari's "prevent third party tracking" and similar options in other browsers, or PiHole and AdGuard - this breaks them.
And yes, it's a known issue going back several years. The official response is "it affects less than 1% of our users, so fuck you".
How would they even be able to fix it, short of redirecting all their domains to stackexchange.com subdomains (and causing a colossal branding mess and making everyone mad)? Almost by definition, anything that would allow them to know you've accepted cookies on a different domain would be a form of tracking that all the anti-tracking stuff would clamp down on.
Yes! I’ve even considered finding some extension to just accept every cookie option for every site, so just I’m not hammered with consent dialogs on StackOverflow.
I use multiple browsers for testing, across multiple computers.
Perhaps this fact, along with their consent expiration policy causes the consent dialogs to always show.
int_19h|10 months ago
And yes, it's a known issue going back several years. The official response is "it affects less than 1% of our users, so fuck you".
LegionMammal978|10 months ago
kristianp|10 months ago
cedws|10 months ago
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learningmore|10 months ago
I use multiple browsers for testing, across multiple computers.
Perhaps this fact, along with their consent expiration policy causes the consent dialogs to always show.