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Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
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There probably ought to be a cookie banner or something though if your instance allows for embedding of third-party content (e.g. YouTube videos), because that content will probably have tracking scripts etc..
@GossiTheDog Well, not exactly unheard of. From the top of my head, Duckduckgo and the EFF websites have no tracking cookies.
There's no technical requirement that could force websites to show ads or use trackers. Most companies simply hate their customers - sad but true.
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Threads won't even work on my Android custom ROM 😆
There may be missing spyware needed to boot it 😆
@GossiTheDog even shops could go without such an annoying popup, but they choose to track me all the time ... it's sad.
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@GossiTheDog And here's my UBlock icon when I'm on Masto.
@GossiTheDog "Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking."
What? I thought the reason they try to coerce you into using mobile apps is precisely because they (and Google, the NSA, etc) can track you, without needing cookies and thereby side-stepping the law. Don't they all insist on Google Play Services (a binary black box) so that your information can be shared between apps?
EDIT: I misread the OP, m'don is good.
@GossiTheDog Oh, I never noticed that. That's indeed unusual. I like it.
@GossiTheDog Why bother collecting data on myself when it's my own server? That's why I like Mastodon
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@GossiTheDog Unfortunately it's becoming hard to tell the difference between sites that don't have a banner because they don't need one, and sites that absolutely do need one but don't because they don't give a shit because nobody is going to enforce anything against them.
@GossiTheDog I didn't know that it was possible to release apps on the play store without having a privacy statement. It's the reason this page exists: https://krita.org/en/privacy-statement/
@GossiTheDog it is rare, but you will also find no cookies on krebsonsecurity.com. I don't want your data, so don't give it to me!
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Gonna print out my cookies and post them to you.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] oh yes, this. What's your privacy policy? "Don't give me your data, I don't want it. I want to know absolutely nothing about you that isn't completely necessary to provide the service I'm offering."
@GossiTheDog sad though many third party Mastodon apps especially on IOS do have trackers for some odd reason. I find it perplexing and disheartening.
@GossiTheDog Proudly serving no cookies or whatsoever on cure53.de ever since the website went online.
We do receive mails from folks that complain about the missing banner though, assuming something is wrong.
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