Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.
Consent-o-matic is your friend 🌞
Been using it for a long time. In my experience it covers maybe 30 or 40% of sites only.
I still don’t care about cookies seems to work for the rest for me!
The issue about that extension is how it handles consent.
In most cases, the add-on just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do
You should be aware that it will often just accept all cookies, because that is easier.
That’s why you get Cookie Auto Delete.
I’ll have to give this a shot. Thanks for the link!
Also, enabling cookie notice blocklists on ublock origin
Today i had a new one:
[ Accept ]
Or
[ Pay to Reject ]
That’s when you choose option 3:
[Close tab]
I keep seeing this a lot lately. I also saw one that had the style from the image (accept all or refuse maybe), but if you hit refuse, a second one popped up that said:
[pay to read]
Or
[read for free]
I opened it in private mode and read for free just let me into the article. I’m guessing it accepts all.
lemme guess
website owned by webedia
Was it The Sun (the shitty tabloid)? I’ve seen people get that on it.
I need to verify this, but I vaguely remembered you’re supposed to be able to exit these safely in two clicks maximum, though they sometimes obscure it.
Usually, it’s something like “Customize” then “Save” without checking anything, or just “Reject All”.
Somebody should in some way pass that information to the companies then.
I’ve seen a few sites set the toggles so that the on position is for options out instead of allowing the use of.
Unlock origin and you won’t see a cookie message ever again.
Ublock origin, but yes.
No. Uclock Origin.
Hehe, naughty keyboard attacks again :)
Is that something you have to enable? I’ve used ublock for years but I still get cookie popups
Yes. Settings > Filter Lists > Annoyances
“Save preferences”? Save them where exactly?
In the strictly necessary cookies that you can’t turn off you silly billy
This is where they get you.
We can have a necessary cookie, as a treat.
The part that annoys me is that I have Do Not Track enabled in my browser and there’s one (1) website I use that respects this choice, as intended by GDPR. (geizhals.de)
All others choose to bother me about their stupid ad tracking.
Just use a browser that doesn’t save cookies. Then accept all.
Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.
Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.
Malicious compliance writ large.
Also, the number of hurdles you have to clear for this tells volumes about where the site owner priorities lie.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Also available for other browsers.
Wow, thank you!
I think people really misunderstand cookies and have been lead to get angry at exactly the wrong things which actually give the biggest companies huge advantages so they’re fine with all of this mumbojumbo.
When you cant have local cookies, or there are hoops, companies that need not bother with this because they own your browser (Google) or companies that own major search engines (Google) or companies that most other companies rely on for ads or social media integration etc (Google) are tremendously advantaged.
Now, basically only Google can collect a wholistic profile of a user, while regular websites must now waste extra man power implementing completely useless cookie preferences when in reality this should have been simplified, at worst, to 3 buttons.
All, No Marketting, No Telemetry.
Anything else is just the user wasting their time or destroying the functionality of a website for no reason/requiring busy body work to comply with ill conceived regulations.
With the downfall of third party cookies in most browsers, cookies literally just serve as some temporary storage for websites on your local machine. Cookies existing or not existing arent what control whether you are tracked, especially given all the fancy fingerprinting that goes on nowadays.
Block. According to the GDPR consent has to be explicit, so never pressing “Accept” is surprisingly a valid tactic.
Enforcement, however, is a different story.
i just disabled cookie persistence in my browsers.
now it doesn’t matter if i click accept all or not
Reject all
~ tada! ~
Yeah, it’s also super easy to prove P!=NP. Just do this one step:
prove it
~ tada! ~
Idk why anyone is still struggling with it.
YMMV. Some of the pop ups like to make the “Reject” button difficult to find.
Consent-o-magic
