Would pay good money for this if it worked in Safari.
Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
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#22Maybe 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.
Blocking cookie banner is a solution. We (Ninja Cookie) believe you have to say that you don't want to be tracked.
We like to take the example of democracy and elections as a way of explaining our stance: many people complain that their opinion is never heard, or even that their voice cannot change the final outcome. But how can anyone expect an opinion to be heard, and taken into account, if it is not stated?
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#23Would pay good money for this if it worked in Safari.
We are actually working on Safari. Everything is "ready" and Ninja Cookie will be available really soon :)
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#24Neat approach! This extension is proprietary (according to license on Firefox Addons site).
I Don't Care About Cookies and UBlock Origin are open source. Given that such an addon requires access to all sites, I have to trust a random french developer/company not to steal my banking credentials.
This is not intended to be hate and I will keep this in mind for the future as this is a good new approach.
I ask that you consider if your soon to be monetized features are compatible with open source.
Best of luck.
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#25What 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.
I believe you have to enable the list to block this in the settings
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#26What 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.
uBlock is able to block cookie banners. But he is not able to reject cookie uses. And we (Ninja Cookie) are thinking you have to say you don't want to be tracked.
We like to take the example of democracy and elections as a way of explaining our stance: many people complain that their opinion is never heard, or even that their voice cannot change the final outcome. But how can anyone expect an opinion to be heard, and taken into account, if it is not stated?
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#27Whatever 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.
Thanks. I will check this out.
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#28What 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.
You have to turn it on. In the options, there are several "Annoyances" blocklists (AdGuard Annoyances, Fanboy's Annoyances, uBlock Annoyances) that do this. Turn them all on for best results.
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#29Some time ago I blocked third-party cookies in the Firefox settings. I was surprised it did not broke anything that I could notice. I wonder if this is still a meaningful way to prevent tracking?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 unpleas…
This works great for a media organization like ours. It's not hard to convince a company that sells power plant control software that anyone who reads utilitydive.com is a good candidate for their ad.
But it's gonna be tough for sites that are "general interest" or even very specific but on a topic that just doesn't have big ad budgets behind it. Our approach also depends on building a recognizable brand in the industry and having a robust in-house ad sales and operations people.
I'm not here to defend programmatic advertising, but I think if/when it goes away it's gonna suck for a lot of small indie sites.