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Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

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Re: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

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Post by DavideNL »

tdkl wrote: post #78
DavideNL wrote: post #74

It seems uBlock (Safari 9) doesn't recognise this when i add it to the 3th party filters/custom URLs - when i click "parse" i don't get to see a new row with a checkbox. example: this works: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-s... this doesn't work: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtr...

True, although it's already in the 3rd party list and you can just enable it there.

ahhh thanks, i didn't notice/expect it to be under the 'Regions languages' section for some reason.

Re: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

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Post by 6t6t6 »

blub wrote: post #22
Udo wrote: post #7

This whole thing is ridiculous. While adding these widgets to blocking filters seems like a workable short-term solution, the entire cookie notice scheme is unworkable in the long run. The problem is, this crap will stack up in the future, and none of it will ever get abolished. On some sites, I get a triple-stacked legalese warning banner, and I have to manually close all three of them. Since internet law will only…

Why block them? It's good that websites have to be more transparent with how they are tracking users. It is however inconvenient for the websites. They could always stop using privacy-invading ad networks and external services which track users and then they wouldn't have to show any message.

> Why block them?

Because as I am already using an AdBlocker that blocks the tracking cookies, this message is irrelevant.

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