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"How to bypass and block infuriating cookie popups" 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ (media.kbin.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Thorned_Rose@kbin.social to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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Oh the hilarious irony. Can anyone recommend an up to date Firefox addon that gets rid of these fucking popups, automatically declining all but necessary? I've looked at a few but I remember folks here recommending some that I can't now for the life if me remember what they were. Thanks!

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[-] Xamrica@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 7 months ago

Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 49 points 7 months ago

And please, if you use consent-o-matic, report the pages it doesn't work on. It's very easy to do and results in shit getting fixed.

[-] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 47 points 7 months ago

uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

[-] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is the best way. If the cookie popup isn't blocked, go in ublock settings and enable the adguard annoyances lists

Screensh

If it's still not blocked do it yourself with the element picker (not zapper), takes a second

https://www.maketecheasier.com/ultimate-ublock-origin-superusers-guide/#removing-elements

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, was not aware of this one 👍

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

Yes, but preferably go over the list of enabled filterlists in it's settings and tick a few more boxes.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is the way. I just zap anything that bugs me if it's not caught by the lists

[-] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

🔝 I didn't know, thanks!!!

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Why is it that even when you refuse necessary cookies the site still seems to be 100% functional

[-] zeluko@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago

You shouldnt be actually able to refuse necessary cookies as the site needs to function even if you click 'decline all' by law.
If a site does break, report it to the supervisory authority of your country.
If you are in the US.. hahahahah.

[-] clb92@feddit.dk 1 points 7 months ago

Why report if a site breaks? It's not illegal to have a broken website, as long as it still respects your choice.

[-] zeluko@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

The site is not really allowed to bother you with the cookie popup either.
If you clicked whatever, the site has to make sure your choice is kept for a reasonable time.
Asking again can be seen as trying to force you to allow more cookies, just so the popup doesnt appear again.
That choice wouldnt be freely given and thus not valid as thats required by the regulation.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All the "necessary" cookies are login stuff. If you never log in, it won't affect you. And even if you do login, it simply won't keep you logged in on subsequent visits.

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

In case you want to share you data for them to sell, so not 100% functional

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago

I use I still don't care about cookies, which blocks the banners; and NoScript, which blocks JavaScript and other crap that would bring up the popup in the first place.

I may stop using IDCAC, however, as some other comments have shown me that I can just use an annoyances blocklist in uBO instead. The fewer extensions I have, the less fingerprintable I am, or so I'm told.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Also "I still don't care about cookies" will automatically accept cookies It can't reject.

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).

Better use uBO and if It can't block the cookie banner for some reason, that site is not worth your time and effort !

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the tip!

[-] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

If you try to use a pihole? Or a DNS that block your wanted domains?

https://privsec.dev/posts/knowledge/badness-enumeration/

[-] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Doesn't blocking JavaScript brakes most websites nowadays?

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

The popular ones, yes, but most of what I'm looking for would still work in Dillo, though it would look a little janky in that particular browser.

For everything else, I selectively unblock certain domains. If I trust the site, I make this persistent. If I don't, this is temporary and Librewolf clears any cookies, settings, caches, or tokens that the site may have given me when I close the window.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

Consent o matic

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

Great extension.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 11 points 7 months ago

Cookies banners is only a thing because the website operators are such pigs with your data.

[-] somnuz@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For me, this is what works best now:

LibreWolf with:

uBlock Origin
CanvasBlocker
raindrop.io — not as an extension but a pinned tab, mostly for convenience to keep my saved websites and articles in one place, if anyone knows anything better, or more useful, or open source, let me know

[-] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

+ raindrop.io — not as an extension but a pinned tab, mostly for convenience to keep my saved websites and articles in one place, if anyone knows anything better, or more useful, or open source, let me know

If you're a selfhoster, try Wallabag (open source)

[-] somnuz@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I’ve started searching for options and now I am thinking about it, there is LinkAce too..

[-] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

That's good. I prefer using the ol' Firefox hardened.

[-] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I use one called "I don't care about cookies", seems to work well.

[-] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

Avast bought it.

There is "I still don't care about cookies" which is a fork of the original or use any other plugins mentioned.

[-] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I still don't care about cookies (not to be confused with i don't care about cookies, that one got sold to some company and the "still" one is a community fork from before the sale)

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