Google Cookies: It's Determined to Set Cookies, Complex and Not Very User Friendly

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Have you ever tried to use google on a brand new browser?

I was amazed at how relativity complex google makes it to avoid accepting its cookies, even to do a simple search. Go to another google service, such as news, and you have to jump through the hoops again.

[graeme_p]

Turn off JS too and those annoying popups stop.

Alternatively use Firefox with the Cookie Auto-destruct extension. You will still have to consent to cookies and T & C, just not so often.

Google (and the average user) see no reason to avoid accepting cookies from big, trustworthy companies like Google and Facebook

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When you opt out of personalized ads, Google makes it especially difficult to do so. There is a list to go through and after you have changed your preferences, they are about 90% changed. You need to go through the same steps multiple times to opt out of them for various Google properties and partners. Mind you, this is not opting out of accepting cookies, just opting out of personalized advertising. I imagine it is far more difficult to avoid accepting cookies at all.

[RhinoFish]

Yet... the cookie crumbles...
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[engine]

RhinoFish, FYI [webmasterworld.com...]
Whether that changes things for the better of the user, IDK.

Yes, it is very difficult even to make it anonymous. Google is voracious in wanting to track.

Another example is the constant nagging on YouTube to sign in. How many times should we have to say no!

I have a feeling that the lawmakers would take an interest if they did as I do and try and get past the jumps, and then do the same thing again, and again.