Hey!

I would like to hear from you if you have a successful method to block the various cookie banners like:

  • small banners
  • full page banners with complicated structure
  • full page banners which say ‘pay or accept’
  • bonus points for newsletter popups

I do use uBlock and PiHole. But when I used extensive lists which handled cookies, my experience was that most websites broke some kind or another.

So please share your successful ways with me :)

  • Phuntis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    ublock origin has inbuilt filters you can turn on for cookie popups that work for almost every site I’ve been to I almost never see them anymore ublock origin is just all around great

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This looks really promising. Not available on mobile though, but I will test on my desktop.

      • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There is a way to enable arbitrary add-ons to work on Firefox for Android, but you have to do a few extra steps: register a Firefox account, create a collection of extensions, then add that collection to your phone. I can tell you that Conset-o-Matic definitely works if you take this route.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It’s sad to see companies’ malicious compliance working. They make it tedious so users get exasperated with it and just accept it.

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Well to be honest, even if each and every website wouldnt use dar patterns and there is a clear choice to refuse with one click, it would still be obnoxious to decline everytime you visit a site.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        “Required cookies” is already a category, under which a cookie could be placed to remember your choice. But that would be counter to their interests.

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the answer. If I remember correctly, this plugin works by accepting all cookies in the background. Is this correct?

      If so, do you also have some kind of cookie cleanup policy/plugin? Or do you really dont care about cookies?