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In ublock origin, go to "Filter lists" (second tabs), check all under: - Cookie notices - Annoyances Ignoring the popup doesn't consent cookies.

by Kuinox 2y ago

ponector 2y ago
Often websites have cookies popup which covers whole screen. AdBlock is hiding it making interaction and especially scrolling the page difficult.
sigmoid10 2y ago
This. The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin. If Google makes good on their threat of disabling adblockers, I'll ditch Chrome immediately. I was a lifelong Firefox user until a few years ago, when I just had to admit that Chrome was significantly better. But without ublock, any advantage it has becomes meaningless.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
  "The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin." I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).
  - sigmoid10 2y ago
    You should work for Google's legal team. They also love this twisted kind of pedantism.
  - encom 2y ago
    Weak bait, but I'll bite. This consent crap is everywhere. My car asks me *EVERY* time I start it, if it can spy on me. There's no option to accept or deny forever.
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
    "Tech bros" and so-called "tech" companies peddling surveillance websites that they call "platforms" would like the public to believe the web is "the internet". This of course is not true. It's a purely web-centric, and "web browser"-centric, perspective that denies fact: the internet is more than the www. A tech bro 100% focused on "web apps" and other garbage might claim that anyone citing the fact that "the internet" is more than the web is "a twisted form of pedantism". After all, the web is where the majority of online advertising is found. This is the tech bro "business model" and web-centrism is therefore vigorously defended. Fortunately the rest of the internet beyond the web (as accessed through popular web browsers that deliver online advertising) is usable without uBlock Origin, although controlling DNS is often essential. Big Tech with their online advertising "business model" may control "the web". And we can see that has resulted in a sewer of advertising. But the web is only one use of the internet amongst many, many others that are not used to deliver advertising.
    - MiguelX413 2y ago
      I disagree.
- orev 2y ago
  Better start installing Firefox then. They already removed Ublock Origin from the extension site so you can’t install on new systems anymore. (There’s probably some hoops you can jump through to install it, but the writing is on the wall)
buran77 2y ago
Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. The cookie is saved before you get to click anything so blocking the banner blocks only the annoyance unless you go further than just blocking the banner.
- kleiba 2y ago
  > Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. Which sites? Could you name some examples, please?
  - cuu508 2y ago
    I'm tracking a few Latvian websites here: https://sīkdatnes.lv https://xn--skdatnes-9ib.lv The page is generated by a script which visits a list of sites using chromium&selenium, and records what cookies get set on first visit. The page is in Latvian, but each red cell represents a cookie that was set too early, before obtaining consent. From the sites I've checked, news portals as a category are the worst offenders. The script itself is here: https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party
    - kleiba 2y ago
      A noble effort, good sir. Are you taking any actions in the cases where you detect cookies being set by a website without consent?
      - cuu508 2y ago
        Yes. In short, I start with a friendly email. If no response, I follow up with a formal, signed complaint. Then if no action, I report to our country's DPA. In quite a few cases, the friendly email alone does the trick. Sometimes the premature cookies are indeed a bug, and get fixed quickly.
        kleiba 2y ago
        Keep fighting the good fight.
dinkblam 2y ago
this helps you, but not the 450M people living in the EU.
- IanCal 2y ago
  Huh? This is perfectly fine in the EU. The reason they have the banners is because they need consent. Removing the banner is totally fine.
- Kuinox 2y ago
  I'm an EU citizen, that's helps me and the people I share it with.
smcleod 2y ago
Works for most but not all sites.
whazor 2y ago
Automatically filling in the cookie popup is in my experience more reliable: https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/
xela79 2y ago
exactly, also https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-dont-care-about-cookies/fihnjjcciajhdojfnbdddfaoknhalnja https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-dont-care-about-c... in combination; seriously, 0 time spent on "cookie" popups
- Kuinox 2y ago
  I recommend limiting the number of extension you have. Each extensions is a possible attack vector, the author can get hacked and a malware pushed instead of the extension.

In ublock origin, go to "Filter lists" (second tabs), check all under: - Cookie notices - Annoyances Ignoring the popup doesn't consent cookies.

by Kuinox 2y ago

In ublock origin, go to "Filter lists" (second tabs), check all under: - Cookie notices - Annoyances Ignoring the popup doesn't consent cookies.

ponector 2y ago

Often websites have cookies popup which covers whole screen. AdBlock is hiding it making interaction and especially scrolling the page difficult.

sigmoid10 2y ago

This. The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin. If Google makes good on their threat of disabling adblockers, I'll ditch Chrome immediately. I was a lifelong Firefox user until a few years ago, when I just had to admit that Chrome was significantly better. But without ublock, any advantage it has becomes meaningless.

1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
"The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin." I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).
- sigmoid10 2y ago
  You should work for Google's legal team. They also love this twisted kind of pedantism.
- encom 2y ago
  Weak bait, but I'll bite. This consent crap is everywhere. My car asks me *EVERY* time I start it, if it can spy on me. There's no option to accept or deny forever.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
  "Tech bros" and so-called "tech" companies peddling surveillance websites that they call "platforms" would like the public to believe the web is "the internet". This of course is not true. It's a purely web-centric, and "web browser"-centric, perspective that denies fact: the internet is more than the www. A tech bro 100% focused on "web apps" and other garbage might claim that anyone citing the fact that "the internet" is more than the web is "a twisted form of pedantism". After all, the web is where the majority of online advertising is found. This is the tech bro "business model" and web-centrism is therefore vigorously defended. Fortunately the rest of the internet beyond the web (as accessed through popular web browsers that deliver online advertising) is usable without uBlock Origin, although controlling DNS is often essential. Big Tech with their online advertising "business model" may control "the web". And we can see that has resulted in a sewer of advertising. But the web is only one use of the internet amongst many, many others that are not used to deliver advertising.
  - MiguelX413 2y ago
    I disagree.
orev 2y ago
Better start installing Firefox then. They already removed Ublock Origin from the extension site so you can’t install on new systems anymore. (There’s probably some hoops you can jump through to install it, but the writing is on the wall)

buran77 2y ago

Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. The cookie is saved before you get to click anything so blocking the banner blocks only the annoyance unless you go further than just blocking the banner.

kleiba 2y ago
> Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. Which sites? Could you name some examples, please?
- cuu508 2y ago
  I'm tracking a few Latvian websites here: https://sīkdatnes.lv https://xn--skdatnes-9ib.lv The page is generated by a script which visits a list of sites using chromium&selenium, and records what cookies get set on first visit. The page is in Latvian, but each red cell represents a cookie that was set too early, before obtaining consent. From the sites I've checked, news portals as a category are the worst offenders. The script itself is here: https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party
  - kleiba 2y ago
    A noble effort, good sir. Are you taking any actions in the cases where you detect cookies being set by a website without consent?
    - cuu508 2y ago
      Yes. In short, I start with a friendly email. If no response, I follow up with a formal, signed complaint. Then if no action, I report to our country's DPA. In quite a few cases, the friendly email alone does the trick. Sometimes the premature cookies are indeed a bug, and get fixed quickly.
      - kleiba 2y ago
        Keep fighting the good fight.

dinkblam 2y ago

this helps you, but not the 450M people living in the EU.

IanCal 2y ago
Huh? This is perfectly fine in the EU. The reason they have the banners is because they need consent. Removing the banner is totally fine.
Kuinox 2y ago
I'm an EU citizen, that's helps me and the people I share it with.

smcleod 2y ago

Works for most but not all sites.

whazor 2y ago

Automatically filling in the cookie popup is in my experience more reliable: https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/

xela79 2y ago

exactly, also https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-dont-care-about-cookies/fihnjjcciajhdojfnbdddfaoknhalnja https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-dont-care-about-c... in combination; seriously, 0 time spent on "cookie" popups

Kuinox 2y ago
I recommend limiting the number of extension you have. Each extensions is a possible attack vector, the author can get hacked and a malware pushed instead of the extension.