Rejecting all consents is just a webcompat disaster waiting to happen, "Why is embedded youtube video not working?", "Why is this social embedded not showing?".
Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
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Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#142Cookie banners are a bad/wrong solution to the underlying problem, but it's the dark patterns within that really piss me off. I shouldn't have to invest deep cognitive attention to "only accept mandatory" but if you're not careful many dialogs will trick you into clicking accept all after you go to the trouble to untoggle all the optional shit. The answer is to use isolation containers, aggressively reset them and no…
I just always click accept all. Less to think about, and it basically puts the web into the state it was in before we all got bent out of shape about tracking, which was fine. (Now that I type that... I should have made an extension ages a go that just does "identify cookie banner and click on the left-most button automatically").
> and click on the left-most button automatically
Why do you think the left-most button is always accept all?
Why do you think the accept all button will be in the same position on all reloads of the same site?
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#143cookie banners make me want to toss my computer out the window tbh - you think we'll ever get to a point where browsers just handle all this and i don't have to babysit buttons or install a million plugins?
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care about cookies plus an extension that deletes frequently plus firefox container tabs will make tracking quite misleading.
My gut feeling is that this would be somewhat useful yes at shielding privacy. But even if you delete cookies every day, at least for me, that's a day of various advertisers tracking my motions across the web. And it also involves the inconvenience of losing the sign in cookies that are greatly convenient for me to have. For my own sake, I'd prefer not accepting unnecessary cookies. On a macro sense, I also feel like…
> My gut feeling is that this would be somewhat useful yes at shielding privacy. But even if you delete cookies every day, at least for me, that's a day of various advertisers tracking my motions across the web.
Browsers mostly block third part cookies by default or have an option to let you do so, so its only site's own cookies that need to be deleted.
> On a macro sense, I also feel like there's a virtue to making it clear to sites that no I don't want their unnecessary cookies.
That gives them an incentive to find ways to track you, such as fingerprinting. Limited data might convince them that tracking data is of low value.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#145I think the idea is poor: giving some answer is making a choice. I'd rather keep the site thinking I'm still choosing what to pick and have adblocker hide the crap.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#146All of this would not be nescessary if the GDPR closed the "Legitimate Interest" loophole and enforced the one click rejection.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely agree, not a fan of the permissions. The broad permissions were required from a usability standpoint. Granting permission on every site for this extension would just be a 1 to 1 replacement of clicking reject on the banner or pop up for every site. I would hope that before Chrome approves an extension to be added to the store that they are auditing the content of package.
Personally, I would still love a site-by-site "reject non-essential cookies" prompt from an extension that's in the same place, with the same UI, on every site. Still a click, but lots better than having to figure out how to accomplish it on each and every site.
Exactly. So you could have 2 shortcuts: one for reject all non essential, one for accept all.
Much better UX than figuring out per site which button to click.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#148Love the idea. I wish chrome extensions had a more granular permissions structure and/or reminders/security checkups on installed extensions and their permissions. As it is the content scripts manifest permission for https://*/ * for content.js is always so jarring to see. For those that don’t know this allows the extension to run that script on every site you visit after clicking accept ONCE when you install the ext…
Fundamentally there is no reason anyone in their right mind should install an extension released by an individual with these permissions. It is a post-decryption access to every single thing you do online. It is absolutely insane to trust your web browsing to a random browser extension, even a useful one ("cloud to butt" is my favorite example of people deleting their entire security model for a joke). Anyone can buy…
It's open source.
So it can be audited. The problem is: who audits and how to know a new version is audited.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think these websites give a shit about your privacy because you clicked on a div with a "No" in it? Not a chance. It's like asking thieves to promise not to steal from you. Protecting users is the browser's job: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cooki...
I'm currently at a small ad tech firm and while I can't speak for other outfits, we definitely are extra careful about respecting user consent indicators. Because we are small, it's not easy to do this, because there are many possible ways for users to "reject". This includes situations that merely imply non-consent due to inaction, rather than active non-consent like a reject cookie indicator, or living in a jurisdi…
> The free internet is built on ads.
And ads don't require pervasive and invasive tracking. The industry made us all believe they do.
Re: Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google could change chome at any time to snoop on all your stuff too, yet we trust them more than extension authors?
They have a strong track record and more to lose.
What about literally every other application you download and install?
All your video games could be (and probably are if they include "anticheat") spying on you.