Block cookie banners on Firefox

Post by Nextgrid » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 7:33 PM UTC

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #10

> For example, they might make the Accept All Cookies button prominent, colorful and appealing, while burying the Customize Settings option in small text or a less noticeable location. This design choice can be misleading, effectively nudging users towards accepting all cookies without considering the consequences. Kind of burying the lede there that this isn't just annoying, it's illegal.

Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

halJordan wrote: post #76

addicted wrote: post #57

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We’ve had far more annoying pop ups and banners since the 90s. One of Opera’s primary selling points at one time was its popup blocking capabilities and that was in the 90s or latest in the 2001/2002 timeframe from what I can remember.

He's not saying that cookie banners were the first pop up. He's saying that you can delineate a before time and an after time that is delineated by the cookie banners. Before: pop ups were bad and browsers would advertise about how they defeated pop ups. After: pop ups are acceptable and you're bad if you want to defeat them.

Post by Nextgrid » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

adrr wrote: post #66

ceejayoz wrote: post #35

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The EU didn't actually force cookie banners; they're not the only route to GDPR compliance. The other routes - like only using necessary cookies - were just unacceptable to ad/tracking companies.

EU is law is so bad that Wikipedia has a cookie banner. It literally bans all non functional cookies unless the users consents like preference cookies, performance monitoring cookies etc. I am sure all their government sites violate their own rules because i see preference cookies getting dropped without my consent and if I block the cookie, site still works.

Post by jszymborski » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 8:03 PM UTC

local_crmdgeon wrote: post #15

jszymborski wrote: post #11

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...

I upvoted but wanted to say Thank You. This is very useful for me personally, and materially improves my life.

Post by LunaSea » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 8:17 PM UTC

treffer wrote: post #69

PaulHoule wrote: post #24

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I always get downvoted for saying this but I think the cookie banners broke taboos about intrusive and annoying pop-ups in web sites. There was a time the tech and design oriented people could fight against it for the users but once it was required or maybe “socially positive” it got much harder to fight against all the others so you find the blogs now that will interrupt you three times to give your email and such.…

The annoying thing is: it is not required by GDPR. You can provide whatever the user wants to do. Recommendations? Sure. If you want them. The required data collection is then just.... Required. It is tied to this purpose though and can't be used e.g. for ads. But it is not OK to collect everything about the user so you can charge more for ads or to sell ("exchange") that information. Which is in 99% of cases the rea…