How does the extensions work. Does it have a hardcoded database with an entry for each website?
It's not exactly "an entry for each website", but yes it's based on a list: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
I don't care about cookies
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#22How did this take so long to be made? I'll install this and try it tomorrow.
It’s actually been around for a while; the Internet Archive seems to indicate that it has been around since at least January 2014 [1], and I’ve been using the filter list with UBlock Origin for at least a couple years now.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170831060807/https://addons.mo...
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#23Or, if you already use uBlock Origin and would rather use its performant, customizable, extensible filtering capabilities instead of adding (and trusting!) yet another addon, just check the "EasyList Cookie" list in your Filter Lists :) .
Browsers should allow users to install extensions from github.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because those cookies are cleared when the tab is closed and most of the major ad networks (Google, Amazon) forget who you are when that happens. Why worry about it?
Lol. Do they really.
This is wrongly downvoted despite being absolutely right.
There's a big misunderstanding behind these "cookie" consent prompts. They are actually about overall data processing consent regardless of technical means - this includes cookies but also things like browser fingerprinting, IP addresses, etc which will persist despite clearing cookies.
Using an extension that automatically grants consent and merely deletes cookies every time would give you a false sense of security if the automatically granted consent allows them to use your browser's fingerprint or IP address to track you anyway.
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#25Or, if you already use uBlock Origin and would rather use its performant, customizable, extensible filtering capabilities instead of adding (and trusting!) yet another addon, just check the "EasyList Cookie" list in your Filter Lists :) .
Browsers should allow users to install extensions from github.
AFAIK, Firefox does, if you're running the beta/nightly channel (and maybe you need to have set an about:config pref too, I forgot, search about it). I install the beta release of uBlock Origin from its GitHub releases page.
EDIT: browser makers are understandably cautious about it, even with a closed ecosystem it's already hard enough for them to avoid half their users getting pushed into installing dubious/malware addons within three hours of browsing, and their resources are limited. So, they default to closed-ness "for the masses", but there's a knob. I don't find this unreasonable.
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#26How does the extensions work. Does it have a hardcoded database with an entry for each website?
The vast majority of the annoying consent prompts are provided by a few vendors so are trivial to detect & block.
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#27The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.
For those, I wanted an extension that replaced data on the cookies with some random data at every access
Enjoy tracking that
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol. Do they really.
This is wrongly downvoted despite being absolutely right. There's a big misunderstanding behind these "cookie" consent prompts. They are actually about overall data processing consent regardless of technical means - this includes cookies but also things like browser fingerprinting, IP addresses, etc which will persist despite clearing cookies. Using an extension that automatically grants consent and merely deletes co…
At least if you’re in EU, active consent is required to comply with the GDPR. This means that if you do what this extension does (filter out the UI elements and ignore dialogs), it’s illegal for a website to save PII about you and your visit.
Many websites and data processors violate this, but since that’s the case for those sites the only winning move is not to play.
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#29A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".
I didn't get that from this webpage. It seems like his extension just accepts all cookie requests and doesn't delete them.
The reality is that very few websites actually let you choose whether to accept tracking cookies or not. For the most part, they set the cookies immediately, even before the disclosure banner appears. Most of them don't even include the option to opt out. It doesn't matter that this is against both the spirit and the letter of the GDPR. Those banners are just an annoying bit of compliance theater.
Given that I'm getting the cookies whether I want them or not, and deleting them whenever my browser closes, if this extension keeps the banners off my screen it's a huge net positive from my perspective.
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#30The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.
For those, I wanted an extension that replaced data on the cookies with some random data at every access Enjoy tracking that
There’s the added joy that some poorly written data munger is going to crash when it receives session tokens that never existed.