• Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      2 months ago

      EDIT: Ignore my blind confidence. CAD is (mostly) broken in recent FF versions. (See ivn’s reply to this post).

      Consent-o-Matic with Cookie Auto Delete and Firefox’s Multi-Account Container tabs covers it all nicely for me.

      Cookie banners get handled, cookies I don’t explicitly want to keep automatically disappear when I leave the site/close the tab, and those I do want to keep can be given their own containers to keep them separated.

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I use uBlock Origin’s picker mode instead. It lets you select which element you want block. It works on other annoying notices, popus and annoying stuff not just cookie notices

      • fin@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?

        Not using the addon, but I simply didn’t know uBlock can do that.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of Avast, it keeps flagging things that straight up aren’t viruses, what’s a good alternative?

      • jim3692@discuss.online
        19·
        2 months ago

        iirc Windows Defender does a decent job. However, if you are a JavaScript developer, try to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

        I personally have stopped running antivirus on Windows a couple years ago. Since I run most, if not all, untrusted software in VMs, I didn’t see the point of wasting performance. On the host, I only run Firefox and Steam/Epic games.

        I then moved to Linux and I have 2 GPUs; one for the host and one for VMs with games. But that’s probably a different story.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          ry to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

          Does windows defender go crazy constantly scanning the files or something? I have a TON of machines running automated tasks using node and any drop in CPU usage would be much appreciated.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      Sponsorblock to auto skip sponsor segments, or even non music parts of music on YouTube. Or interaction reminders, or end credits, etc can make it a little bit how you want it

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      1·
      2 months ago

      I use uBlock Origin on Firefox and I’ve never even seen the semblance of an ad.

      Are you using Chrome, and have they implemented V3, yet?

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    35·
    2 months ago

    ublock origin has a cookie notice and nag filter that removes those.

    go into the settings and turn on the annoyance filters, they are awesome.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      Also FWIW you should care about cookies. That said, I use that filter in UBO but I’m wondering if using it is the same as hitting “reject all” or “accept all”? Does it even matter if you’re using Firefox and thus isolating cookies regardless?

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        My understanding is that most people use an extension to dismiss the cookie dialog if they’re also deleting third party cookies, either with an extension/or a browser feature

        Though there is also consent-o-matic which is supposed to automatically decline all the cookies you can. Folks in this thread mentioned it, so now I’m giving that a try :)

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        AFAIK as long as you don’t click ‘accept’, you are good. I believe thats why they make these notices so obnoxious.

  • AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world
    221·
    2 months ago

    Another recommendation for YT:

    SponsorBlock

    It is Community-Based. Ppl (like you) mark timecodes from sponsor ads and if toggled on those will be skipped. You can whitelist channels as well if you want to.

    150% better YT-experience!

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      If I’m going to see an ad, I do prefer sponsor ads over the injected YT ads. At least I can hope the content creators are getting paid directly for the ad.

  • Jestzer@lemmy.world
    191·
    2 months ago

    I’m not saying my setup is any better, but it currently looks like this:

    • Firefox
    • UBO
    • SponsorBlock
    • Return YouTube Dislikes
    • DeArrow
    • Archive.ph

    I’m open to suggestions if anybody knows any better alternatives. I’ve had mixed luck with services that filter out YouTube’s crap.

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
    171·
    2 months ago

    Be careful with using Privacy Badger and uBO together as it might get in each other’s way. I had YouTube detect me having ad block until I paused Privacy Badger for YT.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    NewPipe and FreeTube if you want YT subscriptions without ads

    Addy.io or simplelogin for email account signups

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 months ago

    Install the LibRedirect extension and fiddle a bit with the settings to automatically redirect to privacy respecting alternatives away from ad heavy sites.

  • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    2 months ago

    I have yet to see unpaywall workk ever. All that site does is link you to free versions if legally available. So it does nothing. Bypass Paywalls clean sometimes works, but if you want non mainstream sites going to archive.today is the most reliable option.