uBlock Origin has a few lists for cookie banners that I always keep on [0][1]
[0] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/easylist_co...
[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
Block cookie banners on Firefox
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#12Any quick patches to apply to the source to enable this in all modes everywhere?:)
Disable JavaScript works to block most problems or reader mode.
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#15uBlock Origin has a few lists for cookie banners that I always keep on [0][1] [0] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/easylist_co... [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
I upvoted but wanted to say Thank You. This is very useful for me personally, and materially improves my life.
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#16How can this work "for German users"? Why is this not a "for a Firefox user"? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.
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#17Given browser headers have existed for a long time, does anyone know why there isn't some protocol of your browser saying "give me all the cookies", "give me only essential cookies" or "give me all cookies except trackibgbones" etc? Instead if tedious and manual banners on every website?
I get why companies might not want this (less cookie acceptance) but they didn't want cookies to require consent either and the EU enforced that. How come no move to require support for a protocol like this?
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#18Funny, I use the "I still don't care about cookies" extension ( https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies ) right now to automatically accept the cookie banners. They're literally one of the most annoying things that has happened in the web's history
I've used this extension for a long time, but there are actually websites like CNN that don't work with it now, because according to their lawyers they have to show that banner to everyone from the EU.
Do you have JavaScript enabled on that domain (CNN)? I use the NoScript extension as well as I Still Don't Care About Cookies, most JavaScripts are disabled (besides cnn.com and cnn.io), and I can read the articles just fine.
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#19Funny, I use the "I still don't care about cookies" extension ( https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies ) right now to automatically accept the cookie banners. They're literally one of the most annoying things that has happened in the web's history
It's funny we (EU, CCPA?) regulate cookies and hit use cases of companies trying to better themselves via analytics or maintain user presence, but we haven't done much in the way of stopping MAGMA from owning the means of communication and commerce outright.
The Apple/Google duopoly on smartphones is insane.
- Companies face 30% tax, can't deploy, can't do native (Apple) or get scare walls (Google), can't form a customer relationship, get ads sold against their brands, forced to use Apple/Google tech and adopt their upgrade cycles, no VMs/runtimes/plugins, etc.
- Customers also have it bad: they're faced with planned obsolescence, no upgrades, encrypted parts ecosystem, green text FOMO. Apple/Google are owning all of payments, navigation, date/sex life, work calendars, emails, etc. etc. And they're not collecting data on us throughout all these activities?
Or what about Google practically owning web discoverability by paying everyone off?
Why don't we regulate smartphone vendors? This seems fair:
- Web is first class. Users can download apps off of it without scare walls.
- Apps can have native code, WASM, self-update, pack runtimes, etc.
- Apps can use their own auth rails, payments rails, etc.
- No limit on the types of apps. You can deploy non-Safari browsers and app stores of your own.
- Search engine providers can't buy access to every single pane of glass.
I'd argue that we should also regulate them on the basis of the power of their defaults, but we're in such a bind that I'd be fine with just the above.
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#20Given browser headers have existed for a long time, does anyone know why there isn't some protocol of your browser saying "give me all the cookies", "give me only essential cookies" or "give me all cookies except trackibgbones" etc? Instead if tedious and manual banners on every website? I get why companies might not want this (less cookie acceptance) but they didn't want cookies to require consent either and the EU…
There are was a standard called P3P that would allow you to specify this kind of thing. However unsurprisingly for an industry driven by surveillance economics making this kind of thing doesn’t get that much traction unless you do things like GDPR. If think I heard somewhere that there is an amendment on the way to address this kind of thing.