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]
Gdpr seemed like it was designed to ban this, but lately companies (especially German ones?) seem to be trying this. I guess it won’t be resolved without a big, slow, expensive court case.
GDPR wasn’t designed to prevent this. It’s a simple choice: accept tracking and get stuff for free OR pay them for stuff with no tracking.
Everything doesn’t have to be free on the Internet
Some companies got into trouble because their pop-ups weren’t clear enough as to the consumer’s rights per GDPR. So they paid the fine and fixed their wording.
When I want to read something e.g. on t-online.de, I do it in a private browsing window. Not perfect, because of fingerprinting, but better than nothing. Or I skip the article and go somewhere else.
Tracking via cookies means gathering personal data, the exact thing GDPR regulates. GDPR says that data must not be collected except on one of a few lawful bases, one of which is consent. Article 7 clause 4 of the GDPR says:
When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether […] the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.
to me this reads like: “consent does not count if you need to agree in order to access a service” and that they imagined consent as being, “yes, you can have my personal data to serve me personalised ads, because I’d rather have personalised ads than generic ones,” which some people (probably not many here!) do think. However, it’s only expressed as “account shall be taken” when determining whether consent was “freely given” and the lawful basis does not specify that consent must be “freely given,” which is where I imagine these kinds of gaps creep in.
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.
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.
Accept allBlock allAnd then the companies get all uwu but adblocking is stealing and damages our revenue! 😭
“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.
Unlock origin and you won’t see a cookie message ever again.
Ublock origin, but yes.
No. Uclock Origin.
Is that the plugin that blocks the increasingly unfunny clock memes in c/ProgrammerHumor?
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
settings, filter list and cookie notices. select both lists there.
Install “I still don’t care about cookies” on Firefox based browsers.
Cookies are declined immediately and the banners closed. Works most of the time unless it’s a custom non-standard cookie prompt implementation.
You’re welcome.
Consent-o-Matric also works great on Firefox
It dosn’t delete cookies. I use ‘Cookie Autodelete’ for that togehter with ‘I still don’t care about cookies’, which is the community version of ‘I don’t care about cookies’. It is much better at removing the Popups.
Also try LibreWolf if you want to discard cookies by default
Cookies are accepted immediately and the banners closed
For those wanting more information, the extension description states:
This add-on will remove these cookie warnings from almost all websites!
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).
It doesn’t delete cookies.
Fair enough but I almost never had it accept anything. I monitor cookies. Perhaps on some sites ot does that, then.
But yea it doesn’t delete cookies. I wouldn’t want it to anyway? I want to stay logged into my stuff.
I recommend LibreWolf if you want to disable and discard all cookies by default.
No, not really, and taken out of context. Glad someone replied to you already.
Acting like I’m spreading misinformation while your comment still clearly states it declines which it does not. I was correcting that part.
Although I see how my comment could mean all cookies get accepted. Wasn’t my intention
AdNauseam + PopUpOFF + CanvasBlocker + Bypass Paywalls Clean
“No, I don’t want ads. No, I don’t want cookies. No, I don’t want to even be asked about cookies, or subscribing to your newsletter, or to sign up for access to this article. Fuck off.”
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.
Malicious compliance writ large.
Also, the number of hurdles you have to clear for this tells volumes about where the site owner priorities lie.
Hence why the EU is now forcing an “easy way to decline”. All compliant websites have a “reject all cookies” button now.
Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.
I’m pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they’re starting to crack down on it now
Don’t use Ghostery anymore
Why?
Check the Wikipedia page on it.
Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
i just disabled cookie persistence in my browsers.
now it doesn’t matter if i click accept all or not
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.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Also available for other browsers.
Wow, thank you!
Just use a browser that doesn’t save cookies. Then accept all.
