Ramadan fasting meets web cookie consent in a UI pun meme

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The meme shows a still from an animated sitcom: a bespectacled moustached character peers through a window while holding up a white sheet of paper that reads "ALLAH IS WATCHING." Above the image, black caption text states, "When it’s Ramadan and you accidentally accept cookies from a website." The joke hinges on the double meaning of “cookies” - edible treats prohibited during daylight fasting versus HTTP cookies that appear in consent banners. Visually, muted suburban backgrounds and a red-framed window contrast with the stark black lettering on the sign, while the technical humor references everyday web-dev UX patterns (cookie pop-ups) and data-privacy requirements

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Cookies WebDevelopment DataPrivacy PrivacyConcerns UXDesign UXFailures WebSecurity Gdpr

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Accidentally hit “Accept All” during Ramadan - now I’m writing middleware that intercepts Set-Cookie headers between fajr and maghrib, 301-redirects to /repent, and logs an audit trail for both GDPR and Judgment Day

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Accidentally hit “Accept All” during Ramadan - now I’m writing middleware that intercepts Set-Cookie headers between fajr and maghrib, 301-redirects to /repent, and logs an audit trail for both GDPR and Judgment Day
Anonymous

When your cookie consent banner has better observability than your distributed tracing setup, but at least both are equally ignored by users
Anonymous

The real horror isn't breaking fast - it's realizing you just accepted cookies from 47 third-party trackers, granted localStorage permissions, and somehow agreed to share your biometric data with a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands. At least with Ramadan, you know exactly when the fasting ends; with cookie consent dark patterns, your data is being digested indefinitely across ad networks you've never heard of
Anonymous

Ramadan mode: I remap “Accept All” to “Reject non‑essential; Set‑Cookie: HttpOnly; SameSite=Strict; calories=0” - legal says calories isn’t a valid attribute, marketing says everything else shouldn’t be either
Anonymous

Consent banners are the only UI where one click can break a fast and our data‑minimization policy; Legal wants “Accept all,” the DPO wants default off, and I just want cmp.rejectAll() on page load
Anonymous

Accidentally consenting to cookies during Ramadan: the only time devs fear divine 403s
@NiKryukov 5y

Allah is an fbi agent or what
1. @feskow 5y
  
  It's a fasting month for Muslims (wiki) (месяц, когда мусульмане соблюдают пост)
@muss_el 5y

I just learned it and I see this meme XD
@ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y

Accepting is different than eating something. Theoretically, should not be a problem!
1. @dugeru42 5y
  
  Theoretically you are given cookie to feed it to the same site later
2. @dugeru42 5y
  
  But can you eat the rich during Ramadan?
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  I don't eat rich people, not poor ones 😱.
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  but they are eating us and whole world! Even in Ramadan!
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  no, but you can feed them to the poor.
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Cannibals?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  more like cannabis
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Smoking Muslim people are more worried about smoking than eating during the daylight until the sunset,

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