The EU forcing this garbage is one of the worst things to happen to the web.
Block cookie banners on Firefox
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#22It would be interesting to know the rough amount of cumulative wasted joules on both the computer side and humans doing the extra clicks this cookie banner nonsense adds up to. Unintended consequences of laws.
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#23Given 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…
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track, though this wasn't part of any regulations.
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#24Funny, 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 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.
Cookie banners were the “broken window” that led to the whole car being demolished.
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#25Given 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…
For the most part even that isn't even required. If a server sends your browser a cookie it's under no obligation to pass it back in the next request. I suppose you could argue that's a bit all or nothing and separating out essential vs everything else is potentially useful.
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#26> 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.
The general trend of Not-A-Button Buttons in GUIs can die in a fucking fire.
We have screens capable of rendering 8K in literally billions of colors and the silicon to drive them and yet we can't spare a few pixels for some borders and shading?
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#27This has been working in the DDG browser for me for awhile, nice to see Firefox catch up.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disable JavaScript works to block most problems or reader mode.
along with most of functionality, yeah, no
Most content websites work completely fine with JS disabled. There’s a certain sort of startup landing page that’s very commonly broken, but on general content pages it’s definitely uncommon. Though blank pages still aren’t as rare as they should be.
Source: I’ve disabled JS by default for I think three years now, and hold that it generally improves the web.
My technique is to disable JS via uMatrix, but don’t enable that extension in Private Browsing windows, and so just open briefly in Private Browsing if a page that I want to see is broken. I find this a pretty decent balance for ease of use.
Re: Block cookie banners on Firefox
#29Given 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…
It is unlikely that anyone wants to implement these if it reduces tracking overall, as you said. It needs regulation and I would like it.
You don’t need consent for cookies if the company collects only data it is allowed to. The banners are visible notification that they want to collect more than they need to.
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#30Given 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.
P3P died when Google started intentionally breaking it.
> P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a... for more info."
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/20/2127250/microsoft-a...
https://web.archive.org/web/20120220235443/http://blogs.msdn...