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Hopefully this is handled in the upcoming eprivacy regulation that intends to move the opt-in choices from individual websites to the browser: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
Brave simply hides these popups. Works pretty well.
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It only works because no-one* is developing to Brave. If Chrome tried that, it would be reverse-engineered or otherwise worked-around.
Brave uses Easylist/uBO Cookies list. Everyone develops for it.
'I still don't care about cookies' works on almsot every website I browse. This extension on the other hand used to work maybe on a third, don't know if it improved but I would suggest the first if you're fed up with the cookie popup.
Asking genuinely as I never experimented myself -- Does the Internet experience in general cripple if one rejects the cookies on all websites? Or there is very little loss of functionality? I often allow 'essential cookies'. Would go to 'reject all' if that works fine.
Sometimes it breaks youtube/twitter embeds.
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In addition to being explicit, consent must also be informed in order to be valid under the GDPR. This is not a blanket understanding of "I may be tracked on the internet." but a specific "X information may be used by Y data processors for Z purposes." If somebody is not informed of X, Y, and Z prior to giving consent, then it doesn't count. A browser-wide preference from years ago is not informed consent. There is o…
> There is one and only one legal default under the GDPR: Do not track. This is immediately followed by every head of marketing (at least for US-based companies) asking "Okay, so how do we track those people?" I'm not saying this is right. But it is reality. We normalized for two decades marketing leadership having the expectation that they can track every interaction, and prying that data away has been painful, espe…
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It is very hard to prevent exfiltration by code that is allowed to write to the DOM in today’s browsers. There is Content Security Policy (csp) which applies to the whole page and sometimes governs scripts injected by extensions but not the extensions themselves. I would love to see browsers add a chain-of-custody to scripts and DOM nodes, so it is easy to tell which nodes were added/touched by a script, and if a scr…
Add some sort of signing process and call this Secure DOM.
'I still don't care about cookies' works on almsot every website I browse. This extension on the other hand used to work maybe on a third, don't know if it improved but I would suggest the first if you're fed up with the cookie popup.
Note "I don't care about cookies" and "I still don't care about cookies" will accept tracking if that's the easiest route to get rid of the popup, which is a significant difference to the extension in this topic.
With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.