Websites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookies

I feel like for straw poll it's more valid, they probably do it to try and avoid people voting more than once.

Cookies are not evil per se... but data mining companies made them like that.

I'm administrating an online store and cookies are responsible for the customer's cart, plus their user session / logged in state.

As an admin I adhere to the "golden rule", thus there are no creepy trackers on store. I don't like them and I don't want customers to face the same thing on websites that I manage.

That said, cookies are needed for user session & fraud protection. Instead of nuking cookies we shall kick the trackers out.

"One vote per IP-address" - So they already tackled the problem that people can vote more then once.

Straight-up asshole design.

Let Mozilla know by filing a report on Webcompat.

I mean, of all sites, polls make the most sense to require cookies to avoid duplicate votes.

That's when I stop giving them traffic. There's far too many alternatives to do otherwise.

There's an extension that allows you to hide incognito mode from websites called Hide Private Mode I'm not sure why browsers don't do this by default (maybe it's some funny compliance thing) it would greatly improve privacy.

It's not pointless, it's so they can track you.

what a misnomer too

It's crazy how many people think "incognito mode" prevents people from seeing what websites they are visiting.

Any websites that doesn't just work with a simple ad blocker or still has ads I just close and never return.

It kind of makes sense for strawpoll, because without some sort of cookies, they wouldn't know if the same person is voting multiple times. But they should say something like 'incognito mode makes the votes inaccurate, please visit on normal mode'

I kind of understand this one though, 99% of the time stuff like this is just bullshit. But this is an effort to stop users from voting multiple times.

When I go to a site, and they do it, I avoid it at all the costs or never come back!

Is that Firefox Focus? Because if yes, them that counts as "incognito mode" too.

Sites like this I just close the tab and use uBlacklist to hide them from any search results.

Honestly people should just set there browser to clear cookies on close

I see that i directly close the thing

For such things, I have a script that creates a brand new temporary Firefox profile and deletes it immediately after closing the browser.

When is the world going to admit that by and large, internet advertising is garbage and doesn't work? People are far more likely to buy whatever random crap sponsor is on their fav youtuber's videos than anything from "targeted advertising".

I use Linux and run my browsers sandboxxed with firejail. Install all the cookies you want, they are gone when the browser is closed.

Unless I'm really desperate for their content, that's when I kill the tab. The internet is vast, and I can probably find what I'm looking for elsewhere.

I agree mildly infuriating "pointless cookies" really - they make their money from advertising and tracking data, so they've made a choice.

Interestingly, a choice that I'm pretty sure would fall foul of GDPR in Europe - but a choice.

You can install the Ghostery add-on on Firefox mobile to prevent cookies and trackers.

The website has the right to choose when you can use it unfortunately. If you don't like the decision, don't use it. Or you could just use a content blocker if the cookies are the issue.