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Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
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Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#12Maybe someday this can be added to browsers, and the browsers can advertise the users’s preference to the server. Maybe even have a special request header for it. We could call it “Do-Not-Track”. A value of “1” would opt-out of all tracking (cookies).
I turned on the anti-cookie alert option in ublock.
Many webpages break with this. It's really annoying.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#13Whatever script you are using for smooth scrolling on that webpage, for the love of God, remove it. If I disabled smooth scrolling in my browser's preferences the last thing I want is some script emulating it poorly.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#14According to their FAQ, their approach is remarkably different from the popular I Don't Care About Cookies: Some current extensions promise navigation, but without a cookie banner. However, Ninja Cookie removes cookie banners by refusing the use of advertising or tracking cookies. This is not the case with current extensions. For example: I Don’t Care About Cookies: this is regularly described as the Internet user’s…
Thank you so much for this comment.
Cookie popups are a pain for internet user and privacy because the design of cookie banners make them easier to opt-in than to opt-out! And we are actually trying to develop a way to improve web experience AND privacy with Ninja Cookie.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#15Maybe someday this can be added to browsers, and the browsers can advertise the users’s preference to the server. Maybe even have a special request header for it. We could call it “Do-Not-Track”. A value of “1” would opt-out of all tracking (cookies).
Great from a user perspective - but wouldn't this mean the end of online advertising? I imagine conversion tracking, or even sending requests to external servers wouldn't be okay with this setting.
I think you are absolutely right. And that's why I think cookies are definitely not dead yet :)
Cookie warnings are designed to be hard to opt-out in order to increase tracking opt-in... So that's why Ninja Cookie is good for user's privacy and web experience.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#16What does this do that ublock origin doesn't? The FAQ explains the difference is that this extension makes 'clearer' your opposition to being tracked.
I see there is a premium version planned but no indication of what additional features it might support.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#17Never understand these kind of extensions. This way you still don't know what the site trying to do with the cookies.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#18What does this do that ublock origin doesn't? The FAQ explains the difference is that this extension makes 'clearer' your opposition to being tracked. I see there is a premium version planned but no indication of what additional features it might support.
I've never seen uBlock Origin block the cookie and GDPR consent popups though.
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#19Maybe someday this can be added to browsers, and the browsers can advertise the users’s preference to the server. Maybe even have a special request header for it. We could call it “Do-Not-Track”. A value of “1” would opt-out of all tracking (cookies).
Great from a user perspective - but wouldn't this mean the end of online advertising? I imagine conversion tracking, or even sending requests to external servers wouldn't be okay with this setting.
People would still be perfectly capable of selling advertisements that worked similarly to the way ads worked before everything was online - a magazine/newspaper/tv show/etc says "our audience size is roughly X, our audience demographics are Y, here's what our ad rates are".
Modern hyper-invasive ads that follow you around the net, build up a profile based on everywhere you go, and occasionally try to install unpleasant software payloads, would have trouble surviving. Can you truly make a case that this would be a bad thing?
Re: Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
These modals being everywhere is 100% a failure of lawmakers being technically inept (again) and being vague with execution. Did EU lawmakers not have anyone providing them advice when writing GDPR?
I almost wonder if there was some lobbying done pro-banner because it probably results in higher engagement (I'm guessing most people click accept blindly) versus disabling cookies. I'm sure Google likes the current state better than if they had to change their browser to encourage folks to disable cookies.
Yeah the banners are annoying and in fact may make it more likely for people to keep cookies. I have my browser set to clear all cookies on close, but that also deletes my "I accept" clicks, so every time I start a new browser session, and this is multiple times per day, my cookies reset. Result before: my cookies would all reset multiple times per day, all nice. Result after: I have to click stupid banners about cookies that I'm deleting soon thereafter anyways.