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.
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?
Couldn’t say. I only just recently started using it and haven’t run into problems so far.
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.
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
It’s not enabled by default. I too just learned about this recently.
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.
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.
Can anyone recommend a good self destruction cookie adding for Firefox?
Or a browser better than Firefox and Chrome, both for Linux and for Android?
Much appreciated!
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.
