Anyone else suddenly getting lots of requests from Google/Youtube to accept Cookies?

Ice Tea · 6 Sep 2020 at 12:44

The last few days Google/Youtube have suddenly started spamming a big window to accept their cookies , anyone else getting lots of requests?

jsmoke · 6 Sep 2020 at 12:59

Mmm ice tea and cookies.

mrochester · 6 Sep 2020 at 13:59

All sorts of websites have been spamming me again with cookie notices again recently. I wish I could find an adblocker that makes them all go away.

Pho · 6 Sep 2020 at 14:26

mrochester said:
All sorts of websites have been spamming me again with cookie notices again recently. I wish I could find an adblocker that makes them all go away.

Use this extension https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Ice Tea · 6 Sep 2020 at 23:04

Seems to have stopped . maybe it was a glitch with Ublock Origin?

Angilion · 7 Sep 2020 at 06:45

Ice Tea said:
Seems to have stopped . maybe it was a glitch with Ublock Origin?

I don't use Ublock Origin and the same thing happened to me, so it wasn't a glitch with Ublock Origin. It was something new at Google's end. You were also required to give gstatic permission to run scripts. If you didn't, you couldn't click on the accept cookies button on the popup. I hope they don't turn it back on again. It was irritating.

NVP · 7 Sep 2020 at 07:07

jsmoke said:
Mmm ice tea and cookies.

Ice T and Coco

Ice Tea · 7 Sep 2020 at 09:21

Angilion said:
I don't use Ublock Origin and the same thing happened to me, so it wasn't a glitch with Ublock Origin. It was something new at Google's end. You were also required to give gstatic permission to run scripts. If you didn't, you couldn't click on the accept cookies button on the popup. I hope they don't turn it back on again. It was irritating.

Thanks for confirming that , lets hope they are not testing new settings on some of their servers as it was very annoying.

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Sep 2020 at 12:47

Not cookies, but Google/YT have been spamming me with CAPTCHA tests e.g. select all of the buses, select traffic lights, select crosswalks etc. It usually says that I'm wrong and can take over 10 pages of tests before I complete it.

Beerbaron · 7 Sep 2020 at 12:51

I had it with YouTube earlier today but its stopped now.

Angilion · 8 Sep 2020 at 06:43

And it's back.

It looks like an attempt by Google to get people to only use Youtube while logged in so they can be farmed for data more effectively. That's the first message I get in the pop-up, a pop-up crafted to push you into clicking on the log in button. It's only after pressing the "don't log in" button that the second pop-up appears about cookies. Also, unsurprisingly, any adverts at the beginning of the video play just fine without pushing you into logging in or accepting cookies and forcing you to allow another Google thing to run scripts on your PC.

glenimp617 · 8 Sep 2020 at 10:28

I don't know if it's because I have pihole, but I get asked all the time

Blackjack Davy · 8 Sep 2020 at 12:40

Not on youtube possibly because I have all ads etc blocked there but everywhere else, yes. If you disable tracking advertising etc cookies you'll be constantly pestered to ~~turn them back on~~ confirm your choices.

ForensiCrypt · 8 Sep 2020 at 12:42

I use Duck Duck Go search instead. Google is horrible for farming your data and this is presumably just another attempt to harass people into making accounts and staying logged in to avoid the hassle.

Ice Tea · 8 Sep 2020 at 12:44

Seems to be very intermittent?

Angilion · 8 Sep 2020 at 23:45

ForensiCrypt said:
I use Duck Duck Go search instead. Google is horrible for farming your data and this is presumably just another attempt to harass people into making accounts and staying logged in to avoid the hassle.

I use DuckDuckGo for searching, but DuckDuckGo doesn't own Youtube and it's Youtube where this is happening.

Ice Tea · 9 Sep 2020 at 07:29

This is just plainly weird...

google.co.uk doesn't ask to accept cookies yet google.com does , Youtube.com automatically swaps you over to GB (as country of origin yet) sometimes it asks and other times it doesn't?

deuse · 9 Sep 2020 at 07:36

Angilion said:
I use DuckDuckGo for searching, but DuckDuckGo doesn't own Youtube and it's Youtube where this is happening.

It happens to me every time I open chrome.
And then again when I go to you tube..

Ice Tea · 22 Sep 2020 at 07:51

I'm seeing lots of complaints about this on places like reddit and apparently it's to do with them being more aggressively GDPR compliant and add-ons like ublock refuse to block it as standard.

uBO Team 2 days ago
Why is this solution not already included in the filterlists?

Because we don't fix GDPR issues.

Pho said:
Use this extension https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Is this addon still working for you on Google and Youtube?

Ice Tea · 22 Sep 2020 at 09:20

Ice Tea said:
Pho said:

Use this extension https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Click to expand...

Is this addon still working for you on Google and Youtube?

Well i just tried it and i didn't have much luck , it sort of half worked.

Google had a white box where it normally asks for consent that eventually closed after a couple of seconds and youtube still asked to login.