Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
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Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#2Have to admit this is quite nice. Firefox may be funded partially by the soulless Google, but Firefox continues to impress me with its features. Great job, Firefox team!
Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#3>"Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites."
Only in Germany for now
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#4>"Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites." Only in Germany for now
I can understand region-locks for products that need to comply with region-specific regulations but for things like these it makes me scratch my head. What's the rationale? Is Mozilla worried goverments elsewhere might not like this? It seems so weird to me.
Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#5Have to admit this is quite nice. Firefox may be funded partially by the soulless Google, but Firefox continues to impress me with its features. Great job, Firefox team!
Other browsers like Brave have this feature for a while. It's another example of Firefox getting late to the party.
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#6Any idea how that would work? I mean it's not as if these things are standardised in any way.
Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#7Have to admit this is quite nice. Firefox may be funded partially by the soulless Google, but Firefox continues to impress me with its features. Great job, Firefox team!
Other browsers like Brave have this feature for a while. It's another example of Firefox getting late to the party.
I mean there wasn't really much need for it when the functionality has been available for ages in various extensions. Not least of which uBlock origin, which may as well be considered a must have for now.
Brave and firefox clearly differ on which features to add natively and which to allow extensions to fill in, but saying this makes firefox late to the party is just silly. You might as well point out that firefox has no ad blocking, even though uBlock origin recommends using firefox at this point.
Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#8>"Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites." Only in Germany for now
I can understand region-locks for products that need to comply with region-specific regulations but for things like these it makes me scratch my head. What's the rationale? Is Mozilla worried goverments elsewhere might not like this? It seems so weird to me.
There was a recent court decision in Germany, ruling that websites must respect the Do Not Track header.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other browsers like Brave have this feature for a while. It's another example of Firefox getting late to the party.
I mean there wasn't really much need for it when the functionality has been available for ages in various extensions. Not least of which uBlock origin, which may as well be considered a must have for now. Brave and firefox clearly differ on which features to add natively and which to allow extensions to fill in, but saying this makes firefox late to the party is just silly. You might as well point out that firefox ha…
Yes, Firefox should block ads by default.
Re: Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows
#10Any idea how that would work? I mean it's not as if these things are standardised in any way.
It follows a list of global (heuristic?) and website-specific rules, which may specify what buttons to click in order to make the banners disappear, or what cookies to pre-load in order to simulate the user already having set a preference, preventing the banners from showing up.
Meta bug tracking all developments: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1783015