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I am glad to see the cookie law, as misguided as it was, be enforced. Online advertising is an oligopoly with a stronghold on network effects. However, I wish

I am glad to see the cookie law, as misguided as it was, be enforced. Online advertising is an oligopoly with a stronghold on network effects. However, I wish the law were solely about sites working with cookies disabled. The prompt on every website is driving me crazy, to the point of installing extensions like https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ (though this has been acquired by Avast apparently, so I won't ever update from 3.3.2). Ever since the first browsers, cookie preferences were customizable in them. Websites should not duplicate that functionality, but merely respect it.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
One of the most important parts of a adblocker those days is cookie banner hiding. EasyList Cookie is one of the first lists I enable on any adblocker that allows it.
eitland 4y ago
The thing is this is something we suffer through while we wait for companies to get enough, and large enough fines to actually read GDPR and respect it. Once that happens it will be almost as before, just with less battery usage, less network usage and less tracking. Will it happen? I think it will. I know see even Google - who I expect to have a small army of lawyers - have given up to certain extent and now lets me opt out directly without any extra steps.
kombai 4y ago
You could try https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies if you don't trust avast.
mnw21cam 4y ago
Try consent-o-matic instead. It allows you to select the level of consent that you want to give web sites. I currently have it set to none, and I haven't seen a consent dialogue for a long time.
- dEnigma 4y ago
  Consent-o-matic is great! Managing my cookie preferences on different sites used to be more annoying that it was worth to me, but with the extension it doesn't require any additional effort. It's also interesting to see the number of clicks it saves on its statistics page, with certain types of cookie dialogs apparently taking more than 12 clicks on average (and good ones only taking one click per site, or even "0", not sure how that works)
- danuker 4y ago
  Wow! Amazing. The code is not minified inside the XPI, which I greatly appreciate. Thank you for the recommendation!
weberer 4y ago
Don't use that extension. It will accept tracking cookies. Instead use Ublock Origin's EasyList Cookie blocker. 1. Left-click Ublock Origin 2. Click the gear Icon 3. Check the box that says "EasyList Cookie"

ElectricalUnion 4y ago

One of the most important parts of a adblocker those days is cookie banner hiding. EasyList Cookie is one of the first lists I enable on any adblocker that allows it.

eitland 4y ago

The thing is this is something we suffer through while we wait for companies to get enough, and large enough fines to actually read GDPR and respect it. Once that happens it will be almost as before, just with less battery usage, less network usage and less tracking. Will it happen? I think it will. I know see even Google - who I expect to have a small army of lawyers - have given up to certain extent and now lets me opt out directly without any extra steps.

kombai 4y ago

You could try https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies if you don't trust avast.

mnw21cam 4y ago

Try consent-o-matic instead. It allows you to select the level of consent that you want to give web sites. I currently have it set to none, and I haven't seen a consent dialogue for a long time.

dEnigma 4y ago
Consent-o-matic is great! Managing my cookie preferences on different sites used to be more annoying that it was worth to me, but with the extension it doesn't require any additional effort. It's also interesting to see the number of clicks it saves on its statistics page, with certain types of cookie dialogs apparently taking more than 12 clicks on average (and good ones only taking one click per site, or even "0", not sure how that works)
danuker 4y ago
Wow! Amazing. The code is not minified inside the XPI, which I greatly appreciate. Thank you for the recommendation!

weberer 4y ago

Don't use that extension. It will accept tracking cookies. Instead use Ublock Origin's EasyList Cookie blocker. 1. Left-click Ublock Origin 2. Click the gear Icon 3. Check the box that says "EasyList Cookie"