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The GeoGuessr World Cup Is the Entertainment I Didn't Know I Needed This Week

Archived link: archive.is/qHSPD

I was just scrolling through my youtube recommendations out of boredom and then suddenly, out of thin air, youtube’s algo comes in with a rare W: The Geoguessr World Cup 2024. This is the sort of entertainment I didn’t know I wanted lol.

I only managed to start watching when the semi-finals were happening and my god, it was way too thrilling than I expected it to be.

VOD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llh4_h-vvKQ

Skip to Grand Finals (honestly watch the entire thing LOL): www.youtube.com/live/Llh4_h-vvKQ?feature=shared&t…

kaiserZak ,

Trueeee, I spent whole Saturday watching that thing. It was so thrilling. I am happy, that I am not the only one, amazed by this “e-sport” :D

azertyfun ,

Unrelated to the article itself but I initially clicked on mobile and was presented with this clearly GDPR-violating prompt:

Tracking consent prompt with only an “Accept all” button

Where’s the button to reject tracking? It doesn’t exist.

For reference this is the correct prompt on admiral’s own website:

Tracking consent prompt with a “Reject all” button next to “Accept all”

First time I see GDPR violation this brazen. While writing this comment I finally figured out how to reject consent (clicking on “Purposes” and manually deselecting each purpose).

I double checked with remote debugging, the button is not just hidden in CSS; it’s missing entirely:

HTML source showing no reject all button

For some reason I don’t get a consent prompt at all from my desktop even on a brand new firefox profile – perhaps because of my user-agent?

Anyways I felt motivated today so I’ve sent an email to their Data Protection Officer and set a reminder for next month in case they ghost me.

uberstar OP , (edited )
@uberstar@lemmy.ml avatar

Good find, I had assumed people around here would at least have uBlock Origin with at least one Annoyances filter on (or similar), this is possible via Firefox mobile as well. I didn’t get the prompt as well on desktop, probably because of the Annoyances filter that blocks the consent prompts anyway.

Here’s an archived link, not sure if that helps: archive.is/qHSPD

azertyfun ,

I have uBlock Origin but didn’t bother configuring any additional filters. My desktop has consent-o-matic as well I think (which unlike a filter actually auto-rejects the tracking stuff).

However on a new profile (no extensions) I didn’t get the prompt, and neither did I on chromium. Just checked on windows as well, still not prompt. So it seems to just not prompt on desktop for some reason… I wonder if that means the tracking is disabled or they just auto-consent.

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