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These days what I typically want to block are the gdpr modals that pop up that demand you read and interact with a bunch of legalese or click I surrender, own m

These days what I typically want to block are the gdpr modals that pop up that demand you read and interact with a bunch of legalese or click I surrender, own me.

irrational 5y ago
Seriously, I don’t live in Europe, so why do I have to click the cookie agreement buttons?
- zeepzeep 5y ago
  So you start hating privacy laws
- petercooper 5y ago
  GDPR applies to EU citizens wherever they are in the world, so unless they know for sure that you're not an EU citizen, they have to give you the prompt.
  - irrational 5y ago
    In that case, I’d like a browser setting that allows me to indicate that I am not an EU citizen. Then a website could check for that flag and not bother me.
xvello 5y ago
I agree that this is getting out of hand. I investigated this, but as more and more websites are non-functional until you chose a consent option, just hiding the modal with a cosmetic filter won't help. There are several browser extensions to achieve this, and I feel like this is a superior solution than my project.
foxfluff 5y ago
DNT was supposed to be a solution. Companies who insist on nagging you until you "voluntarily consent" are to blame. I'm not sure what killed DNT but it seems like they're trying to revive it again in Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022523 No doubt companies who want to violate your privacy will lobby hard against this.
- Miraste 5y ago
  I remain convinced Do Not Track was a piece of sophisticated satire. The notion that companies would stop ad tracking because you asked them nicely is so openly ludicrous that no one could have seriously expected it to work.
  - foxfluff 5y ago
    Then are the consent popups satire too? To me the header would've just been a way to say "no consent" without requiring you to play whack a mole with popups. If DNT is satire and consent popups are too, are these fines also a joke? https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
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    - Nextgrid 5y ago
      They are absolutely a joke when you consider the profits of the fined companies.
      - foxfluff 5y ago
        I don't know about that. Google was fined 150 million EUR for not having a simple "refuse all" button in their consent nag. A single button. The complaint was that refusing is not as easy as accepting all cookies. 150M EUR is relatively small compared to Google's wealth, but so is the infraction. And they can't just write it off as a cost of doing business and continue the violation, because they were given a deadline to fix it and from there on a penalty of 100k EUR per day. Actually I don't have the data to do the maths but I seriously doubt Google's practice of making of you click a few times instead of once can make them 100k EUR per day in profit. And if it did, I'm sure the authorities would eventually increase the fine. Assuming the fine results in compliance, it really doesn't look like a joke to me.
        5y ago
bspammer 5y ago
You might be interested in the Adguard Annoyances [1][2] blocklist which is easily added to uBlock Origin, just by ticking a checkbox in the "Filter lists" tab of the settings. [1] https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#annoyances-filter https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#anno... [2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/AnnoyancesFilter/sections https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
jakub_g 5y ago
I don't use personally but this might be of interest for you: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list

These days what I typically want to block are the gdpr modals that pop up that demand you read and interact with a bunch of legalese or click I surrender, own me.

irrational 5y ago

Seriously, I don’t live in Europe, so why do I have to click the cookie agreement buttons?

zeepzeep 5y ago
So you start hating privacy laws
petercooper 5y ago
GDPR applies to EU citizens wherever they are in the world, so unless they know for sure that you're not an EU citizen, they have to give you the prompt.
- irrational 5y ago
  In that case, I’d like a browser setting that allows me to indicate that I am not an EU citizen. Then a website could check for that flag and not bother me.

xvello 5y ago

I agree that this is getting out of hand. I investigated this, but as more and more websites are non-functional until you chose a consent option, just hiding the modal with a cosmetic filter won't help. There are several browser extensions to achieve this, and I feel like this is a superior solution than my project.

foxfluff 5y ago

DNT was supposed to be a solution. Companies who insist on nagging you until you "voluntarily consent" are to blame. I'm not sure what killed DNT but it seems like they're trying to revive it again in Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022523 No doubt companies who want to violate your privacy will lobby hard against this.

Miraste 5y ago
I remain convinced Do Not Track was a piece of sophisticated satire. The notion that companies would stop ad tracking because you asked them nicely is so openly ludicrous that no one could have seriously expected it to work.
- foxfluff 5y ago
  Then are the consent popups satire too? To me the header would've just been a way to say "no consent" without requiring you to play whack a mole with popups. If DNT is satire and consent popups are too, are these fines also a joke? https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    They are absolutely a joke when you consider the profits of the fined companies.
    - foxfluff 5y ago
      I don't know about that. Google was fined 150 million EUR for not having a simple "refuse all" button in their consent nag. A single button. The complaint was that refusing is not as easy as accepting all cookies. 150M EUR is relatively small compared to Google's wealth, but so is the infraction. And they can't just write it off as a cost of doing business and continue the violation, because they were given a deadline to fix it and from there on a penalty of 100k EUR per day. Actually I don't have the data to do the maths but I seriously doubt Google's practice of making of you click a few times instead of once can make them 100k EUR per day in profit. And if it did, I'm sure the authorities would eventually increase the fine. Assuming the fine results in compliance, it really doesn't look like a joke to me.
      - 5y ago

bspammer 5y ago

You might be interested in the Adguard Annoyances [1][2] blocklist which is easily added to uBlock Origin, just by ticking a checkbox in the "Filter lists" tab of the settings. [1] https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#annoyances-filter https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#anno... [2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/AnnoyancesFilter/sections https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

jakub_g 5y ago

I don't use personally but this might be of interest for you: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list