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What browser and extensions do you recommend?

nicbou 3y ago
uBlock Origin has many "Annoyances" filter lists. They work really well on desktop and on Android. I pretty much forget that cookie banners exist.
YoshiRulz 3y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar... works fairly well
- matrss 3y ago
  That is just an automatic opt-in to tracking, the opposite of what was asked for.
  - extraduder_ire 3y ago
    I use consent-o-matic for this purpose: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic You can actually configure each toggle yourself.
    - matrss 3y ago
      I've used that in the past. Unfortunately, it had some issues; some sites completely broke when consent-o-matic did its thing (e.g. page remained greyed-out and/or scrolling was broken from the cookie popup). Not their fault really and I respect the effort, but it made it hard to keep it enabled all the time. Maybe I should try it out again, it has been a while...
      - rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
        https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies works much better, in my experience.
  - rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
    https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies does reject non-technical cookies – as much as it can – but https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete will do the rest.
    - matrss 3y ago
      Hmm, that is an interesting combination. I forgot that I had tried that in the past as well. It had its own issues, because it deletes all cookies by default. Is there any way to keep the convenience of staying logged in with that, e.g. a crowd-sourced whitelist for authentication cookies?
rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
Firefox with strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. uBlock Origin with all available filter lists enabled (except the one for Mobile pages, if you're on dekstop). https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies to reject all tracking consent requests. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... for subdomains you want to log into but still want to access the main and other domains without being connected. For instance, I have it set always open mail.google.com in the Work container so that I can log into Gmail but still search google.com, navigate google.com/maps (etc) outside the work account. Then, install https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete and set it to delete all data from all domains expect the ones you want to stay logged into (Google for instance… but only inside the Work container mentioned above). Then, all websites data (including cookies) will be auto-deleted a few seconds after your close all tabs from that domain. You have to enable the auto-cleaning and support for containers. You can tweak a few more things but that should be enough. I also recommend the awesome https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... add-on but only for users who support some media financially. It's fine to workaround paywalls (such a bad system) but good journalists still needs to be paid somehow. Idem with https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock As for mobile, I use the excellent https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ on Android. You can have the above add-ons there too, but you need to use Collections for that (as explained here: https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/#create-your-own-add-on-collection https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozil...). But this won't be necessary soon https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-fire... By the way, Firefox will soon get rid off all cookies banner without the need for "I still don't care about cookies" add-on: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/firefox-115-beta-released-with-cookie-banner-reduction-and-other-improvements/ https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/firefox-115-beta-relea...

uBlock Origin has many "Annoyances" filter lists. They work really well on desktop and on Android. I pretty much forget that cookie banners exist.

YoshiRulz 3y ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar... works fairly well

matrss 3y ago
That is just an automatic opt-in to tracking, the opposite of what was asked for.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  I use consent-o-matic for this purpose: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic You can actually configure each toggle yourself.
  - matrss 3y ago
    I've used that in the past. Unfortunately, it had some issues; some sites completely broke when consent-o-matic did its thing (e.g. page remained greyed-out and/or scrolling was broken from the cookie popup). Not their fault really and I respect the effort, but it made it hard to keep it enabled all the time. Maybe I should try it out again, it has been a while...
    - rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
      https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies works much better, in my experience.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
  https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies does reject non-technical cookies – as much as it can – but https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete will do the rest.
  - matrss 3y ago
    Hmm, that is an interesting combination. I forgot that I had tried that in the past as well. It had its own issues, because it deletes all cookies by default. Is there any way to keep the convenience of staying logged in with that, e.g. a crowd-sourced whitelist for authentication cookies?

rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago

Firefox with strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. uBlock Origin with all available filter lists enabled (except the one for Mobile pages, if you're on dekstop). https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies to reject all tracking consent requests. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... for subdomains you want to log into but still want to access the main and other domains without being connected. For instance, I have it set always open mail.google.com in the Work container so that I can log into Gmail but still search google.com, navigate google.com/maps (etc) outside the work account. Then, install https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete and set it to delete all data from all domains expect the ones you want to stay logged into (Google for instance… but only inside the Work container mentioned above). Then, all websites data (including cookies) will be auto-deleted a few seconds after your close all tabs from that domain. You have to enable the auto-cleaning and support for containers. You can tweak a few more things but that should be enough. I also recommend the awesome https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... add-on but only for users who support some media financially. It's fine to workaround paywalls (such a bad system) but good journalists still needs to be paid somehow. Idem with https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock As for mobile, I use the excellent https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ on Android. You can have the above add-ons there too, but you need to use Collections for that (as explained here: https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/#create-your-own-add-on-collection https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozil...). But this won't be necessary soon https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-fire... By the way, Firefox will soon get rid off all cookies banner without the need for "I still don't care about cookies" add-on: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/firefox-115-beta-released-with-cookie-banner-reduction-and-other-improvements/ https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/firefox-115-beta-relea...