I'm pretty anti-advertising, but somehow "cookie wall" just struck me as an absurd request. But when I think about it, cookies are kind of the engine powering advertising, so wanting to be able to avoid a cookie actually should strike me as reasonable.
Best of luck to you. Atlasobscura doesn't really seem like a place I'd be worried about this kind of thing, but then again I don't know anything about who they are or which affiliations they hold.
Why not rotate your cookies more frequently on sites that insist on them, or when temporarily necessary? Personally I’ve adopted the approach where I trust a variety (3, in fact) of content blockers to also block major tracking networks. I’m less worried about the rest. I suspect that eventually websites will evolve to doing more third-party tracking via first-party integration on the backend or cname, but I’m only, hmm, passively paranoid about this sort of thing. I figure most uses of tracking by first-party is for statistics and metrics to improve that first-party site or service. I do wish selling traffic metrics was against the law, but back in the day magazines routinely sold customer lists, as do pizza places, so it would take a lot of social pressure to change this in most of the world...
Reminds me of an excerpt from one of my favorite novels, The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt:
...though I believe the [Rosetta] Stone was originally a rather pompous thing to erect, it was a gift to posterity. Being written in hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek, it only required that one language survive for all to be accessible. Probably one day English will be a much-studied dead language; we should use this fact to preserve other languages to posterity. You could have Homer with translation and marginal notes on vocabulary and grammar, so that if that single book happened to be dug up in 2,000 years or so the people of the day would be able to read Homer, or better yet, we could disseminate the text as widely as possible to give it the best possible chance of survival.
What we should do, I said, is have legislation so that every book published was obliged to have, say, a page of Sophocles or Homer in the original with appropriate marginalia bound into the binding, so that even if you bought an airport novel if your plane crashed you would have something to reread on the desert island. The great thing is that people who were put off Greek at school would then have another chance, I think they’re put off by the alphabet but if you’ve learned one at the age of six how hard can it be? It’s not a particularly difficult language.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 27.6 ms ] threadI'm pretty anti-advertising, but somehow "cookie wall" just struck me as an absurd request. But when I think about it, cookies are kind of the engine powering advertising, so wanting to be able to avoid a cookie actually should strike me as reasonable.
Best of luck to you. Atlasobscura doesn't really seem like a place I'd be worried about this kind of thing, but then again I don't know anything about who they are or which affiliations they hold.
...though I believe the [Rosetta] Stone was originally a rather pompous thing to erect, it was a gift to posterity. Being written in hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek, it only required that one language survive for all to be accessible. Probably one day English will be a much-studied dead language; we should use this fact to preserve other languages to posterity. You could have Homer with translation and marginal notes on vocabulary and grammar, so that if that single book happened to be dug up in 2,000 years or so the people of the day would be able to read Homer, or better yet, we could disseminate the text as widely as possible to give it the best possible chance of survival.
What we should do, I said, is have legislation so that every book published was obliged to have, say, a page of Sophocles or Homer in the original with appropriate marginalia bound into the binding, so that even if you bought an airport novel if your plane crashed you would have something to reread on the desert island. The great thing is that people who were put off Greek at school would then have another chance, I think they’re put off by the alphabet but if you’ve learned one at the age of six how hard can it be? It’s not a particularly difficult language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai_(novel)