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April 29, 2021 07:00 am
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/29/22408098/vivaldi-cookie-crumbler-blocks-pop-ups-floc-gdpr
Vivaldi is updating its browsers to block annoying cookie pop-ups
Vivaldi announced today that it’s updating the desktop and Android versions of its Vivaldi browser with the ability to block annoying cookie preference pop-ups. Thanks to the passage of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you’ve probably had to click through at least one dialog box asking if you’d like to manage how a site tracks you. Vivaldi’s new update lets you avoid those notifications — with some major caveats — while theoretically still keeping you safe from tracking.
Vivaldi’s logic for the new feature, affectionately called “Cookie Crumbler,” is that while giving users control over how they’re tracked is good, doing so through a pop-up “leads to clicking ‘allow’ or ‘accept’ without realizing that...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/29/22408098/vivaldi-cookie-crumbler-blocks-pop-ups-floc-gdpr
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