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Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there. If you're on iOS, t

Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there. If you're on iOS, the Kill Sticky bookmarklet does a decent job of cleaning these up without breaking most sites: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web-browser-screen-space-with-kill-sticky/ https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

tonymet 2y ago
content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources, and no longer works in Chrome, which is the primary browser.
- coldpie 2y ago
  So use Firefox.
  - tonymet 2y ago
    tell that to the billion internet users who suffer from cookie banners. I'm talking about the network effect.
    - wtetzner 2y ago
      I'd think anyone capable of installing an adblocker in Chrome would be able to install Firefox + an adblocker. Obviously it would be better if adblocking wasn't required in the first place.
    - coldpie 2y ago
      I do tell them that. I can't help everyone, but I can help some.
- ravenstine 2y ago
  Those resources are well spent.
  - tonymet 2y ago
    my point is that it's not "fixed". The issue plagues 99.9% of internet users.
- elashri 2y ago
  > content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources That's not true. On average any overhead in browsing performance introduced by ad blocking is compensated by the elimination of tracking and ads elements of the pages. It saves bandwidth and are better for UX. We can argue about business models but claiming it requires tremendous resources is not true. And content-based ad blocking still works in chrome but in much more limited capability compared to superior browser like Firefox.
- wil421 2y ago
  Switched to edge at work and Safari at home/mobile hasn't been a huge issue. Firefox is my secondary. Although I no longer do much web debugging, the switch from edge to chrome wasn't too painful.
- barryrandall 2y ago
  But it's not the only browser. The popularity of a particular form of foolishness does not diminish its foolishness.
- consteval 2y ago
  > content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources I don't have the evidence with me, but from what I've seen content-based blocking actually saves resources, both load times and memory. It's because Ads are not actually free or even cheap, you have to make a third-party request, load some content and JavaScript. So, if you spend a little to find and block those requests, you end up saving resources on average.
diggan 2y ago
> Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters (and enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there). Fixed. Except for the pesky sites that somehow disable (or rather "not enable") certain things until you've "answered" the banner. Can't remember what site I hit that on most recently, but I had to disable uBlock, reload the page, click "Deny", and then the video/element worked.
- cluckindan 2y ago
  And by hitting that ”deny” button, you have ”consented” to hundreds if not thousands of data brokers around the world processing all your personal data gathered throughout your life across all your devices. They can now freely buy your data from other brokers to enrich their profile of you. Should have unchecked those 973 legitimate interest checkboxes they hid under the ”affiliates” or ”vendors” or ”providers” or whatever. Next, they will resell that profile to political campaigns, advertisers, law enforcement, private dicks and security providers, the military, foreign intelligence services and drug cartel hit squads, to name a few. You could buy it too! Or your friends, enemies, neighbors, colleagues, bosses…
  - immibis 2y ago
    If they're doing that after you clicked Deny, the government can come down hard on them. Sadly, only the government - individuals can't sue companies for GDPR violations.
    - cluckindan 2y ago
      Legitimate interest checkboxes are technically not asking for consent, they are considered informational. OneTrust popups are especially inflammatory in this regard.
      - robin_reala 2y ago
        Legitimate interest can absolutely be opted-out of: (f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#006.001 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#006.001
al_borland 2y ago
I use Hush on iOS.
- coldpie 2y ago
  Oh nice, thanks. I'll give that a shot.
jtbayly 2y ago
The most recent iOS (18) introduced a feature that lets you hide distracting things on the page. (Tap left side of the url field and select “Hide distracting items.” Then just tap what you want to remove and hit done.) I believe that they will stay hidden next time you visit the site. Regardless, I use Hush and another blocker and it has still come in very handy several times already, so I thought others would want to know about it.
serial_dev 2y ago
While I appreciate your workarounds, the issue is not fixed. Almost everyone is going to keep clicking these stupid banners. It’s not okay, it’s not fixed until the rules are adjusted and we have less tracking and’s less pointless banners.
- seeknotfind 2y ago
  So many pop-ups these days, for every little thing. Tracking. OS permissions. Browser permissions. Take a survey. Speak to our AI assistant. Do you agree to this. Donate. Sign up. Pay. So many clicks. Used to be viruses, but we have the same result with our complexity.
  - deprecative 2y ago
    It's not complex. It's simple. It's greed. It's absolutely ridiculous that we as a species put up with all of this nonsense because we have a faulty foundational understanding of what is and should be normal. The brain rot that we've subjected ourselves to is absolutely ludicrous.
    - seeknotfind 2y ago
      You can always find disagreement if you look for it. Maybe this is your thing, given user name, your account makes an interesting study on it. Though in this case, I wouldn't be so reductive. Not all complexity (I ascribe to the result) is due to bad intentions (e.g. greed). There's also the EU GDPR trying to protect kids. AI assistant might be a tool to try to help users. If you want to simplify the cause here, how about a lack of focus or failure to tame the complexity of the world with our technologies, or tendency to add rather than delete?
      - deprecative 2y ago
        Why do we need to protect kids? Greed. Why do we need AI to help people? Greed. It's not complex. There are complex things but understanding the cause of business doing business is not complex. It's simple.
whazor 2y ago
Filters are unreliable, it is better to have the cookies banners automatically filled out via Consent-O-Matic: https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/ Which works on Chrome, Firefox and iOS. The best part is that you can actually specify your preferences, but globally for all websites. I actually prefer to have the functionality cookies enabled.
chatmasta 2y ago
Since when do bookmarklets work on iOS? How exactly do I use that?
- xk_id 2y ago
  I just figured it out. You bookmark a normal website. Then you go to your bookmarks and edit the new entry you created; you can then change the URL to the javascript code. Finally, to activate the bookmarklet you have to tap on the address bar and then manually browse to the bookmark entry (it doesn’t work if you just type its name in the address bar and press Go, or if you select it from the suggestions list).

tonymet 2y ago

content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources, and no longer works in Chrome, which is the primary browser.

coldpie 2y ago
So use Firefox.
- tonymet 2y ago
  tell that to the billion internet users who suffer from cookie banners. I'm talking about the network effect.
  - wtetzner 2y ago
    I'd think anyone capable of installing an adblocker in Chrome would be able to install Firefox + an adblocker. Obviously it would be better if adblocking wasn't required in the first place.
  - coldpie 2y ago
    I do tell them that. I can't help everyone, but I can help some.
ravenstine 2y ago
Those resources are well spent.
- tonymet 2y ago
  my point is that it's not "fixed". The issue plagues 99.9% of internet users.
elashri 2y ago
> content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources That's not true. On average any overhead in browsing performance introduced by ad blocking is compensated by the elimination of tracking and ads elements of the pages. It saves bandwidth and are better for UX. We can argue about business models but claiming it requires tremendous resources is not true. And content-based ad blocking still works in chrome but in much more limited capability compared to superior browser like Firefox.
wil421 2y ago
Switched to edge at work and Safari at home/mobile hasn't been a huge issue. Firefox is my secondary. Although I no longer do much web debugging, the switch from edge to chrome wasn't too painful.
barryrandall 2y ago
But it's not the only browser. The popularity of a particular form of foolishness does not diminish its foolishness.
consteval 2y ago
> content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources I don't have the evidence with me, but from what I've seen content-based blocking actually saves resources, both load times and memory. It's because Ads are not actually free or even cheap, you have to make a third-party request, load some content and JavaScript. So, if you spend a little to find and block those requests, you end up saving resources on average.

diggan 2y ago

> Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters (and enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there). Fixed. Except for the pesky sites that somehow disable (or rather "not enable") certain things until you've "answered" the banner. Can't remember what site I hit that on most recently, but I had to disable uBlock, reload the page, click "Deny", and then the video/element worked.

cluckindan 2y ago
And by hitting that ”deny” button, you have ”consented” to hundreds if not thousands of data brokers around the world processing all your personal data gathered throughout your life across all your devices. They can now freely buy your data from other brokers to enrich their profile of you. Should have unchecked those 973 legitimate interest checkboxes they hid under the ”affiliates” or ”vendors” or ”providers” or whatever. Next, they will resell that profile to political campaigns, advertisers, law enforcement, private dicks and security providers, the military, foreign intelligence services and drug cartel hit squads, to name a few. You could buy it too! Or your friends, enemies, neighbors, colleagues, bosses…
- immibis 2y ago
  If they're doing that after you clicked Deny, the government can come down hard on them. Sadly, only the government - individuals can't sue companies for GDPR violations.
  - cluckindan 2y ago
    Legitimate interest checkboxes are technically not asking for consent, they are considered informational. OneTrust popups are especially inflammatory in this regard.
    - robin_reala 2y ago
      Legitimate interest can absolutely be opted-out of: (f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#006.001 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#006.001

al_borland 2y ago

I use Hush on iOS.

coldpie 2y ago
Oh nice, thanks. I'll give that a shot.

jtbayly 2y ago

The most recent iOS (18) introduced a feature that lets you hide distracting things on the page. (Tap left side of the url field and select “Hide distracting items.” Then just tap what you want to remove and hit done.) I believe that they will stay hidden next time you visit the site. Regardless, I use Hush and another blocker and it has still come in very handy several times already, so I thought others would want to know about it.

serial_dev 2y ago

While I appreciate your workarounds, the issue is not fixed. Almost everyone is going to keep clicking these stupid banners. It’s not okay, it’s not fixed until the rules are adjusted and we have less tracking and’s less pointless banners.

seeknotfind 2y ago
So many pop-ups these days, for every little thing. Tracking. OS permissions. Browser permissions. Take a survey. Speak to our AI assistant. Do you agree to this. Donate. Sign up. Pay. So many clicks. Used to be viruses, but we have the same result with our complexity.
- deprecative 2y ago
  It's not complex. It's simple. It's greed. It's absolutely ridiculous that we as a species put up with all of this nonsense because we have a faulty foundational understanding of what is and should be normal. The brain rot that we've subjected ourselves to is absolutely ludicrous.
  - seeknotfind 2y ago
    You can always find disagreement if you look for it. Maybe this is your thing, given user name, your account makes an interesting study on it. Though in this case, I wouldn't be so reductive. Not all complexity (I ascribe to the result) is due to bad intentions (e.g. greed). There's also the EU GDPR trying to protect kids. AI assistant might be a tool to try to help users. If you want to simplify the cause here, how about a lack of focus or failure to tame the complexity of the world with our technologies, or tendency to add rather than delete?
    - deprecative 2y ago
      Why do we need to protect kids? Greed. Why do we need AI to help people? Greed. It's not complex. There are complex things but understanding the cause of business doing business is not complex. It's simple.

whazor 2y ago

Filters are unreliable, it is better to have the cookies banners automatically filled out via Consent-O-Matic: https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/ Which works on Chrome, Firefox and iOS. The best part is that you can actually specify your preferences, but globally for all websites. I actually prefer to have the functionality cookies enabled.

chatmasta 2y ago

Since when do bookmarklets work on iOS? How exactly do I use that?

xk_id 2y ago
I just figured it out. You bookmark a normal website. Then you go to your bookmarks and edit the new entry you created; you can then change the URL to the javascript code. Finally, to activate the bookmarklet you have to tap on the address bar and then manually browse to the bookmark entry (it doesn’t work if you just type its name in the address bar and press Go, or if you select it from the suggestions list).