There's many reasons, site specific settings like selecting a language or if a certain popup message been dismissed by the user so it's not shown again. Sorting settings, dark/light mode or what stage of the signup process the user is at.
Altough I agree many aren't a necessity and could be eliminated by better software design.
Correct, if you want to live cookieless on the internet you have to disable them in browser. But as others have said, this will break the majority of websites.
Functional cookies can never be used for identifiable information, only to ensure the functionality of the website.
GDPR infringements are categorized by severity and impact to its users, but also by the yearly turnover by said company. Meaning cookie banners by smaller companies are low priority.
You could try contacting the relevant Data Protection Authority from your country or the providers country.
It's a company who makes them and their partners lots of money, any company you see pushing HP products is just as shady as them. They've been riding their brand recognition for at least a decade.
Then right before their EOL's they push all their old stock for pennies and suddenly everyone has a HP product and they don't complain for the most part cause they got them dirt cheap.
I'm not judging anyone for not knowing the risks of algorithmic news, and I get how we got there. Journalism as a whole changed by it, so many news articles are engagement bait now. It's becoming so hard to find uplifting news, that's why I liked reddit and now lemmy too. People make a genuine effort to find uplifting news.
Diversification has always been the answer, proven by a second uprising of RSS.
I'm so incredibly proud of my government for using SolidPods to store citizen data. Something our northern neighbours should've done too apparently. That's a scary article.
GDPR should prevent any tomfoolery, but if I was dutch I'd be pretty scared atm.
I'd add that Social Media kind of took over this role for most regular users
I agree, and that fact scares me tbh. But that's more of a privacy concern with social media and less an adventage of RSS. Some RSS feeds do require you to click through for the full article, having another opportunity for tracking.
I've asked some DJ's what radio they listen too and NTS has been unanimously answered. Very good variety, playlist for any mood and discovery is great as well.
Mine is setup like that as well, but IIRC it's only for thumbnails. When you open an image, it's requested from the original server.
Browser pre-loading does DNS requests and sometimes even loads the full page in advance without even clicking a link, for faster load times. So it all depends on your app/browser/instance combo.
Be careful browsing federated social media on work internet. You don't know where requests will be made, I've seen a post of someone getting in trouble because lemmynsfw was pre-loaded by their browser.
RSS feeds are a way to aggregate articles from many websites all in one feed. There's no inherite privacy advantages. The main advantage is you can group many RSS feeds into your preferred categories and see a list of all the articles of your interests, without having to visit each website separately.
You can start here, a currated list of many feeds. I use Feeder on android and FreshRSS as a self-hosted curration tool but also to connect RSS feeds to services of mine.
There's many reasons, site specific settings like selecting a language or if a certain popup message been dismissed by the user so it's not shown again. Sorting settings, dark/light mode or what stage of the signup process the user is at.
Altough I agree many aren't a necessity and could be eliminated by better software design.