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Consent-O-Matic
- another_twist 9mo agoRegular user here. Cant live without this addon, I absolutely love this. Its been a while since I have to manually dismiss a consent popup. Although the redirects from Google and company can get a bit annoying.
- cocoto 9mo agoSimply enable the “cookie notices” list in ublock origin (available on every platform now, even iOS). According to the EU law if you don’t click accept it’s equivalent to denying.
- bcye 9mo agoThis extension gives you more choice than denying or allowing everything though, you get granular choice automatically applied to all websites where it works
- cocoto 9mo agoI think most people don’t want to give consent to any of this so a simple block list is enough.
- bcye 9mo agoWell it does change if you have more of a choice than reject all or allow all (without needing to go into complicated settings each time). Telemetry is not that unpopular - I'd like devs to fix bugs I encounter.
- gempir 9mo agoBreaks many websites though and you'll be wondering why something doesn't work and then you have to remember you checked that ublock checkbox a few months ago.
- benjojo12 9mo agoI think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled, I don't have to even disable the entire list. You just disable u-block for that specific site
- thevinchi 9mo agoUntil this moment, I did the same thing… but right now I realize, this behavior incentivizes a domain owner to intentionally break their site, to trick the visitor to disable their blocker. Then the browser: refreshes the page, downloadz all the thingz… presents cookie banner. I’ve been using uBlock (or Brave) for years now, and when “something doesn’t work right” the first thing I often do is lower my shields… :facepalm: From now on, I’ll just bounce. Keep your cookies, I’m not hungry.
- lol768 9mo agoI've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and the actual consent modal. Websites then use various mechanisms to prevent scrolling. uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down and can't interact with. If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.
- guenthert 9mo agoComplain and use a different site. There are only few websites which offer a truly unique service. If enough complain and walk away, something might finally change.
- Dilettante_ 9mo agoThanks for the warning, I'd turned on those lists when I read the parent comment and would not have had a good time troubleshooting that.
- worble 9mo ago
- Fraaaank 9mo ago> According to the EU law if you don’t click accept it’s equivalent to denying. The result is the same. Technically there's no such thing as denying, only providing (explicit) consent. If consent is required and no consent is provided, then there is no ground for processing.
- atoav 9mo agoAlso: the consent has to be informed consent. Me clicking away a nag banner, even if I click "accept" isn't informed consent by the definition of the law. You want to share my data with your 300+ "partners" legally? Good luck informing me about all the ways in which every of those single partners is using my data. If you are unable to inform me I can't give consent, even if I click "Accept all". That is however a you-problem, not a me-problem. If you share my data nontheless you are breaking the law.
- neodymiumphish 9mo agoUndoing whatever data collection and sharing, as well as seeking and obtaining restitution, is probably a much harder problem to solve (for you) if you select accept.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoA lot of the notices provide exactly the info you need to be informed, it's on you if you want to read it or not.
- atoav 9mo agoAre you sure? Most notices provide a list of partners. What needs to be provided is a list of who gets to see which data for which purpose. Most lists I have ever seen are lists that are not informing me of that, especially the lengthy ones. The only ones that comply are very short lists by privacy conscious website owners.
- JCattheATM 9mo ago
- geor9e 9mo agoBut I don't want to auto deny. I want my shopping carts to work. I want websites to save my login and preferences. I just don't want the pop-ups. So this extension is great.
- cccbbbaaa 9mo agoLogin, preferences, or shopping cart cookies (aka “functional cookies”) do not need consent. I never saw a banner that allowed me to disable them.
- pietz 9mo agoThis idea/execution isn't new right? Can someone explain what makes this different/better? Is this the ublock Origin of cookie banner hiders?
- mort96 9mo agoIt goes through the "reject all tracking" flow. Other solutions automate clicking "accept all tracking" (since that's usually simpler), or just hide the pop-ups.
- jadtz 9mo agoI use this extension, but I am still always bombarded with the pop-ups, not sure if I set it up wrong or its not that useful.
- zevv 9mo agoWhat works pretty well for me is the "i don't care about cookies" extension for firefox; my default privacy policy is to throw away cookies when the browser restarts, which I do a few times per day anway.
- Semaphor 9mo agoWorks pretty well for advertisers as well, as that fails back to allowing all tracking, of which cookies are only a tiny amount
- johndough 9mo agoThat extension might allow tracking. From their Chrome add-on page: When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). Deleting cookies is insufficient because of browser fingerprinting, which you just consented to.
- TylerE 9mo agoBelieve it or not some of us don't actually give a damn, we just want the fucking nags to go away.
- jatari 9mo agoWell the extension is called "I don't care about cookies", not "I care deeply about my privacy"
- tcfhgj 9mo agozevv obviously cares about cookies and privacy
- wartijn_ 9mo agoBut this thread stars with someone saying they don’t care about cookies because they’ll delete them anyway. That’s different than saying they don’t care about their privacy, so it’s worth pointing out that accepting every cookie banner does have privacy implications beyond just having cookies placed.
- rtbruhan00 9mo agoIt’s the first extension I install on a new machine to keep my browsing flow from breaking every 5 seconds. Truly a 'quality of life' essential.
- cx0der 9mo agoDoes this work better than built-in Firefox feature?
- bcye 9mo agoIt seems the feature you are referencing was deprecated? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction
- HelloUsername 9mo agoPrevious discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562230
- jojobas 9mo agoCombine this with auto-delete of cookies except for your selection of sites and you're good.
- dijit 9mo agoIt always impresses me how its actually easy not to need these banners yet everyone will consistently participate in the civil disobedience of annoying their users. No doubt in the hope of making people mad at the EU. To the point that people are worried when cookie banners are not required now. I have had a few worried conversations on why our site doesn’t have a cookie banner. The answer is simple, we don’t track our users, and login is explicit consent and functionality which doesn’t require a prompt under GDPR.
- HPsquared 9mo agoYou need a "no cookies here" banner.
- pocketarc 9mo agoI've seen that in a few places, yeah! I think I personally would just put something in the footer and have a specific page for it that I can link people to. I really hope that I never end up in a situation where someone tells me "well the conversion rate would be much higher if you just stopped fighting it and put up the damn banner".
- jampekka 9mo agoIt's really enraging. Even EU's official sites use the banners, and probably for sites where they wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) even be needed. It seems that very few, even lawyers, really understand when explicit consent is not needed, and instead we get cargo culting of pointless consent banners everywhere. The situation has become such that "consents" aren't really meaningful at all, as people just want to get rid of the banner, and it becomes US style contract theatre.
- IMTDb 9mo agoIf it's that easy to not need the banners, I'd expect EU websites themselves to lead the "no cookies needed" movement. Yet https://european-union.europa.eu https://european-union.europa.eu displays a cookie banner for tracking on what is essentially a static informational site. If the EU itself feels tracking is valuable enough to warrant the banner on their own pages, it's hard to fault businesses (whose survival actually depends on understanding their audience) for making the same choice. At least they're compliant with their own regulation, I suppose.
- DonHopkins 9mo ago[flagged]
- cluckindan 9mo ago”Cookie banner” is a misnomer. These consent popups are usually asking for you to consent to having hundreds if not thousands of companies build and sell a profile of you. They will combine your behavior and device data from various sources, identify you across platforms by linking device IDs, and ultimately sell your privacy to the highest bidder. Typically, you can’t even turn these permissions off, nor can you deny consent or object to their purposes: they are increasingly claiming they are for ”fraud prevention” or some other technical purpose which doesn’t land under consent or the ”legitimate interest” umbrella.
- pmarreck 9mo ago... All so I can have ads that are actually more relevant to me. Sounds horrible. >..< The (...fortunately a) handful of places I've worked at which dealt with this sort of thing were very strict about removing PII. I'm more concerned about only being shown information (not just ads for products) relevant to my click-tuned interests as I think that's just contributing massively to political polarization.
- cluckindan 9mo agoThat’s a defeatist post hoc rationalisation, akin to ”I don’t have anything to hide”
- networkadmin 9mo agoThe cookie thing is just a red herring. Who gives a damn about cookies? Are they suddenly a privacy problem after decades in use? The people who want to track you (including these crooked governments who are pretending to care about cookies) are doing much more than using cookies these days. Which is exactly why they felt it safe to raise this giant kerfuffle about cookies. It's a distraction.
- treetalker 9mo agoCookies have always been a privacy problem. That other, greater privacy invasions exist does not mean that cookies ought not be addressed or ought be tolerated. Liberty demands the end of systems of control.
- whazor 9mo agoThis extension gives me my preferered web experience. Namely it tries to automatically fill in the cookie pop-ups for you, instead of hiding it. You can actually enable functional cookies, which are useful. Then when filling the cookie popup doesn't work, you can fill it in manually. This is a huge improvement over the ublock hiding of popups, which actually breaks sites time to time.
- xanrah 9mo agoThis is why I use it too. UBlock and other options remove the banner or consent screens fine, but this breaks functionality sometimes. Even not accepting the required cookies can break basic functionality.
- jonplackett 9mo agoIt’s completely ridiculous there isn’t just a way to set ‘no thanks’ in the browser
- celsoazevedo 9mo agoOn Firefox, there's also Cookie Auto Decline. It seems to work on more sites: - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-auto-decline/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-auto-d... - https://github.com/JobcenterTycoon/cookie-auto-decline https://github.com/JobcenterTycoon/cookie-auto-decline Not sure if it's as advanced, but does a good job at declining or simply hiding the banners.
- drnick1 9mo agoJust block that shit with uBlock Origin (Firefox, not the neutered Chromium version).