Hey!

I would like to hear from you if you have a successful method to block the various cookie banners like:

  • small banners
  • full page banners with complicated structure
  • full page banners which say ‘pay or accept’
  • bonus points for newsletter popups

I do use uBlock and PiHole. But when I used extensive lists which handled cookies, my experience was that most websites broke some kind or another.

So please share your successful ways with me :)

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      This looks really promising. Not available on mobile though, but I will test on my desktop.

      • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        There is a way to enable arbitrary add-ons to work on Firefox for Android, but you have to do a few extra steps: register a Firefox account, create a collection of extensions, then add that collection to your phone. I can tell you that Conset-o-Matic definitely works if you take this route.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use this as well, but it’s quite annoying to use in combination with Temporary Containers and Google. The addon ignores the “reject all” button and instead clicks to the customisation menu (another page) to disable all the settings and click save.

      Googling for something and clicking a Youtube result becomes a flow of search->popup->redirect->save + redirect -> click Youtube -> redirect -> popup -> redirect -> save -> redirect -> video playback.

      Should be fine without temporary containers, though.

  • Phuntis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    ublock origin has inbuilt filters you can turn on for cookie popups that work for almost every site I’ve been to I almost never see them anymore ublock origin is just all around great

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    It’s sad to see companies’ malicious compliance working. They make it tedious so users get exasperated with it and just accept it.

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well to be honest, even if each and every website wouldnt use dar patterns and there is a clear choice to refuse with one click, it would still be obnoxious to decline everytime you visit a site.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        “Required cookies” is already a category, under which a cookie could be placed to remember your choice. But that would be counter to their interests.

    • Phuntis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      don’t use ghostery it’s a honeypot owned by an ad/tracking company

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the answer. If I remember correctly, this plugin works by accepting all cookies in the background. Is this correct?

      If so, do you also have some kind of cookie cleanup policy/plugin? Or do you really dont care about cookies?

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        I think it does auto accept.

        I don’t really have anything specific for cookies, just doing the basics with uBlock + Firefox + Firefox containers. I do keep my facebook/instagram/other problem-logins in separate containers, but that’s about it. I saved this thread in case someone else has other suggestions :)