If you go to uBlock Origin’s settings and then select ‘Filter lists’, there’s a list maintained by EasyList and another by AdGuard that both block cookie notices. To my understanding, this isn’t enabled by default (at least it wasn’t when I installed uBO).
Apologies if this is common knowledge; I didn’t know about it until recently.
Why YSK: Cookie consent pop-ups are annoyances full of dark patterns designed to frustrate you into affirmatively opting into superfluous data collection and letting companies profit off your information. Saving just a few seconds on pages you browse adds up, and this is especially true if you use something like Cookie AutoDelete that makes your answers to these pop-ups transient.
I just enable every filter except for regional
Why not regional?
Well if you aren’t visiting . Kz, or . kz adjacent websites - you probably don’t need to worry about them.
from what I know, they’re only meant to be used as a last resort if a website in a certain language still loads ads. those filters do a blanket ban on a lot of addresses, so they break many sites if you get girlbossy and enable them all
Consent o Matic doesn’t just hide them but actually declines the banners actively. Maybe it has an impact on some statistics that will probably never matter.
That’s a good point, although I have no idea if that actually matters since you IIRC have to affirmatively consent under the GDPR. I try not to add more browser extensions than I strictly need to (and try to only use very popular ones) to try to have some small defense against fingerprinting (even though that’s rough to avoid these days).
Browser extensions like Consent-O-Matic also grant yet another piece of software access to nearly every aspect of my digital life – facilitated mainly through the browser – although it being under the MIT License, recommended by Mozilla, and developed by researchers at Aarhaus’ CAVI offset that risk a lot.
As long as uBO blocks them, that’s good enough for me.
I’ve enabled it yet I still see cookie notices on a bunch of websites. StackOverflow for example.
StackOverflow was my inclination for searching this last week because it pops up the massive cookie banner on EVERY single page load for me. I enabled both the “Cookie Notices” and “Annoyances” lists at the same time - one of them handled it and I think it was Annoyances if I’m remembering correctly.
Try enabling that one too if you haven’t already.
EDIT: Just realized I need to enable the social widgets list too : D
If only my friends believed me that dark patterns were real.
I’m the paranoid crazy one because I say to get the hell off fb and x.
Your friends might be stupid if they are not realizing that those banners are designed to trick people
How in the world can you have that view when companies literally advertise about doing those dark patterns?
They think all corporations good. Anything else scary and bad. Only use apple and Netflix. These are the “normies”.
I don’t see how someone could have hat view. You see so much ui chicanery, especially with popups.
There’s also the Consent-O-Matic browser extension to automatically decline cookies
I disabled it, I don’t remember what was the issue, I’ll have a try again, thanks for the reminder
I find it works 90% of the time. Which makes the 10% it doesn’t work annoying because I’m not used to declining cookies anymore 😅
It’s not enabled by default. I too just learned about this recently.
Edit:
On the topic of uBlock Origin, you can also use it to filter out content on the web version of Lemmy since it doesn’t have a native keyword filtering feature. Just add to “my filters” and swap in your own instance.
For comments:
feddit.uk##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/elon/i)))For posts:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/elon/i))For urls:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(a[href*="elon.com"])Zero Elon Musk news is what I dream of. Fuck that cunt. Thanks for sharing this!
Ublock, filter out the term “linux” and “trump” on lemmy.
…huh, look at that. Lemmy has 6 posts total. Thats 2 more than yesterday! The fediverse is growing!
I have quite the extensive list I’ve been building over the past few years and so far my record is only 3 posts visible on the frontpage. Most of the time it’s nowhere that bad though, but I do notice that it’s putting in a lot of work.
Thanks for the info. Like many, I use “I don’t care about cookies”, still sometimes I had to disable on some sites otherwise those became impossible to login or simply access. Is this ublock setting similar?
FYI, “I don’t care about cookies” is owned by Avast, and I can’t even find the official source code anymore.
Couldn’t say. I only just recently started using it and haven’t run into problems so far.
In the annoyances you can block the log in with Google/Facebook too
Neat, thanks.
I use another extension called “I don’t care about cookies” which is good, but does occasionally get confused.
FYI, “I don’t care about cookies” is owned by Avast, and I can’t even find the official source code anymore.
This just accepts all cookies. The default should be to deny them which is what consent-o-matic tries to do. With ublock it’s like you’re ignoring the pop-up which would be the next best thing.
It does not accept them, does it? I have used it before, but stopped for some reason, but I can’t remember why exactly. I don’t think that was it, though.
Can anyone recommend a good self destruction cookie add on for Firefox?
Or a browser better than Firefox and Chrome, both for Linux and for Android?
Much appreciated!
my solution is to use container tabs with temporary containers. every new tab or a different website gets a fresh session with no cookies.
LibreWolf is a fork from Firefox. It is a much better alternative for privacy, and deletes cookies by default. You can also configure which pages you want to maintain cookies, e.g. for automatic login (if that’s something you want)
I like that option!
For FireFox Cookie AutoDelete.
Yes, this one. It’s one of my three essential extensions: uBlock Origin, NoScript, and Cookie AutoDelete.
Thanks!
If I recall, there’s actually a setting in Firefox that automatically deletes all cookies when you close the browser.
