I have a smartphone running on Android.

Everytime I browse a website, I get a banner ad across the top of the
screen inviting me to download the Free App from the google play store.

I get this from Daily mail, Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun, etc.

I have absolutely no interest in downloading and installing any App, I
just want to use my web browser to read the news.

I find I can get rid of the banner by clicking on close or X.

However, it always comes back after 24 hours. So clearly the Play Store
is not getting the message that I am simply not interested in the app,
and that repeatedly asking me the question is simply bullying &
harassment as I an not going to change my answser!

How can I kill this for good?

SH wrote:

> Everytime I browse a website, I get a banner ad across the top of the
> screen inviting me to download the Free App from the google play store.

These are generated by scripts e.g the popup for the guardian app will
be triggered by a script on the guardian website. You might be able to
create custom rules in eg. uBlock to prevent them?

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> SH wrote:
>
> > Everytime I browse a website, I get a banner ad across the top of the
> > screen inviting me to download the Free App from the google play store.
>
> These are generated by scripts e.g the popup for the guardian app will
> be triggered by a script on the guardian website. You might be able to
> create custom rules in eg. uBlock to prevent them?

Or try an adblocking browser like Brave?

(I don't recall whether it handles this case - it doesn't handle the endless
pestering from Reddit to open things in their app. That is bypassed in
different ways - eg reading via teddit.net ).

It is possible the OP's browser is rejecting cookies, which will mean they
get the 'hey, you're new around here' experience every visit.

Theo

On 07/07/2021 13:11, Theo wrote:
> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> SH wrote:
>>
>>> Everytime I browse a website, I get a banner ad across the top of the
>>> screen inviting me to download the Free App from the google play store.
>>
>> These are generated by scripts e.g the popup for the guardian app will
>> be triggered by a script on the guardian website. You might be able to
>> create custom rules in eg. uBlock to prevent them?
>
> Or try an adblocking browser like Brave?
>
> (I don't recall whether it handles this case - it doesn't handle the endless
> pestering from Reddit to open things in their app. That is bypassed in
> different ways - eg reading via teddit.net ).
>
> It is possible the OP's browser is rejecting cookies, which will mean they
> get the 'hey, you're new around here' experience every visit.
>
> Theo
>

I do run a Pi Hole here as it happens.......

Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
daily on the same websites

When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?

My choices appear to be logged with something called OneTrust but I sill
get asked to saver & accept, or reject. Irrespctive of hwat I choose, it
comes back 24 hours later!

SH wrote:

> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
> daily on the same websites
> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO

But they ned to store your "said no to cookies" answer in a cookie ...

On 07/07/2021 13:26, Andy Burns wrote:
> SH wrote:
>
>> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
>> daily on the same websites When will the websites finally learn that
>> No Means NO
>
> But they ned to store your "said no to cookies" answer in a cookie ...
>

you'd think with the User Agent string that they would have got the
message that this particular UA doesn't want tracking, performance, etc
cookies stored...

After all how does OneTurst remember my particular cookie settings?

On 7 Jul 2021 at 13:24:14 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:

>
> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
> daily on the same websites
>
> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
> on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?

Do you reject cookies? Then they can't save your settings.

Cheers - Jaimie

--
Imagine there were no hypothetical situations.

On 07/07/2021 14:16, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2021 at 13:24:14 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
>> daily on the same websites
>>
>> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
>> on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?
>
> Do you reject cookies? Then they can't save your settings.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
>
so which type of cookie should I accept then to allow it to remember
the rest of my cookie settings?

On 7 Jul 2021 at 14:32:27 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:

> On 07/07/2021 14:16, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>> On 7 Jul 2021 at 13:24:14 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
>>> daily on the same websites
>>>
>>> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
>>> on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?
>>
>> Do you reject cookies? Then they can't save your settings.
>>
>> Cheers - Jaimie
>>
> so which type of cookie should I accept then to allow it to remember
> the rest of my cookie settings?

Heck if I know, I reject cookies too.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.
-- blue_beetle

On 07/07/2021 14:45, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2021 at 14:32:27 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/07/2021 14:16, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>> On 7 Jul 2021 at 13:24:14 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
>>>> daily on the same websites
>>>>
>>>> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
>>>> on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?
>>>
>>> Do you reject cookies? Then they can't save your settings.
>>>
>>> Cheers - Jaimie
>>>
>> so which type of cookie should I accept then to allow it to remember
>> the rest of my cookie settings?
>
> Heck if I know, I reject cookies too.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
>

so do you not feel bullied and harassed that you have to keep on
clicking reject & save every 24 hours for each website you regularly
frequent, and thay they just do not get the message?

It seems the only "cure" is to click on accept all & save which is of
course what is "expected" of you....

SH wrote:

> It seems the only "cure" is to click on accept all & save which is of
> course what is "expected" of you....

Don't do that, click on the "customise my choices" button (or whatever)
turn everything other than essential cookies off, then click "save my
choices" that ought to send one (or a mininimal number at least) cookie
to remember you don't want any other cookies. Of course if you then
clear cookies, the cookie remembering you don't want cookies gets nuked
and you're back to square one.

Or you can do what I do, set web browser to delete all cookies every
time it starts (so any cookies that slip through are not meaningful for
long) and use the "I don't care about cookies" extension, which hides
most of the cookie pop-ups warnings.

On 7 Jul 2021 at 14:51:02 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:

> On 07/07/2021 14:45, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>> On 7 Jul 2021 at 14:32:27 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/07/2021 14:16, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>> On 7 Jul 2021 at 13:24:14 BST, "SH" <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Another annoyance is being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
>>>>> daily on the same websites
>>>>>
>>>>> When will the websites finally learn that No Means NO, rather than keep
>>>>> on bullying and harassing me into clicking accept?
>>>>
>>>> Do you reject cookies? Then they can't save your settings.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers - Jaimie
>>>>
>>> so which type of cookie should I accept then to allow it to remember
>>> the rest of my cookie settings?
>>
>> Heck if I know, I reject cookies too.
>>
>> Cheers - Jaimie
>>
>
> so do you not feel bullied and harassed that you have to keep on
> clicking reject & save every 24 hours for each website you regularly
> frequent, and thay they just do not get the message?

Nope.

> It seems the only "cure" is to click on accept all & save which is of
> course what is "expected" of you....

Yep.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we
grow old because we stop playing"
-- George Bernard Shaw

On 07/07/2021 14:51, SH wrote:
> It seems the only "cure" is to click on accept all & save which is of
> course what is "expected" of you....

Which actually seems to be in violation of various laws, at least if I'm
reading
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cookie-consent-most-websites-break-law-by-making-it-hard-to-reject-all-tracking/
correctly.

You could complain here: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection which *does*
have really clear cookie management buttons... Shame it takes about a
third of the screen.

--
Chris

On 08/07/2021 12:53, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 07/07/2021 14:51, SH wrote:
>> It seems the only "cure" is to click on accept all & save which is of
>> course what is "expected" of you....
>
> Which actually seems to be in violation of various laws, at least if I'm
> reading
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/cookie-consent-most-websites-break-law-by-making-it-hard-to-reject-all-tracking/
> correctly.
>
> You could complain here: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection which *does*
> have really clear cookie management buttons... Shame it takes about a
> third of the screen.
>

I need help to see where the OP's posts shows the sites are not
complying with the legislation. He started by complaining about
repeated ads for apps, not about invitations to agree to cookies etc.

He then complained about "being asked to agree or reject cookies usually
daily on the same websites". But - as already pointed out - the sites
cannot record preferences on that if the OP refuses to allow any cookies
at all to be stored.

I don't deny that some or all of the sites may not meet all of the
criteria that article suggests they should. But as a user of some of
them I can vouch for the fact that those sites do remember my options;
and I never see the "banner ads".

And FWIW I struggle to see how the sites are bullying or harassing
anyone. What they do is consistent, impersonal, indiscriminate, and
unthreatening. And easily avoided by simply not visiting the sites.

--
Robin
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