OK Google
i just disabled cookie persistence in my browsers.
now it doesn’t matter if i click accept all or not
Install “I still don’t care about cookies” on Firefox based browsers.
Cookies are declined immediately and the banners closed. Works most of the time unless it’s a custom non-standard cookie prompt implementation.
You’re welcome.
It dosn’t delete cookies. I use ‘Cookie Autodelete’ for that togehter with ‘I still don’t care about cookies’, which is the community version of ‘I don’t care about cookies’. It is much better at removing the Popups.
Consent-o-Matric also works great on Firefox
I too use this.
Cookies are accepted immediately and the banners closed
For those wanting more information, the extension description states:
This add-on will remove these cookie warnings from almost all websites!
In most cases, the add-on just blocks OR hides cookie related pop-ups.
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).
It doesn’t delete cookies.
Nope, declined
Why oh why didn’t the lawmakers add an obligation to use a standardized cookies selection popup.
I remember day one of it coming into effect and it was already obvious this was a necessity.
Lobbying. One of those laws pretending to do the right thing but sabotaged.
Or maybe its even worse than that. Before you could just have the cookies deleted. But if you do that now you get the awful popup every time, so you just accept them in the end.
I know I do.
This law has made me accept cookies spying.Consent-o-magic
ublock has filter lists for these things. Doesn’t always work but helps a lot.
the nice part is that if you don’t ever respond to the popup, they are not allowed to presume you accepted
Or just use PopUpOff.
I don’t consent to jack shit that tries to hold my time hostage lol
Should have been handled on protocol level. Cookies get priority levels, set browser to only accept required cookies and done. Everyone just wanted to do it the easy way… add a banner and ask the user… or dont even make the banner, call a third party library that does it for you… and has its own tracking code… yay!
Just install Cookie Autodelete
These forms are actually about consent of tracking and cookies are just one of the ways to do tracking. You’re still consenting to tracking.
Also Firefox Total Cookie Protection is a better solution for cookies. You should enable strict mode and Cookie AutoDelete does not work with Firefox strict mode.
Block all 3rd party cookies by default. Done.
I think people really misunderstand cookies and have been lead to get angry at exactly the wrong things which actually give the biggest companies huge advantages so they’re fine with all of this mumbojumbo.
When you cant have local cookies, or there are hoops, companies that need not bother with this because they own your browser (Google) or companies that own major search engines (Google) or companies that most other companies rely on for ads or social media integration etc (Google) are tremendously advantaged.
Now, basically only Google can collect a wholistic profile of a user, while regular websites must now waste extra man power implementing completely useless cookie preferences when in reality this should have been simplified, at worst, to 3 buttons.
All, No Marketting, No Telemetry.
Anything else is just the user wasting their time or destroying the functionality of a website for no reason/requiring busy body work to comply with ill conceived regulations.
With the downfall of third party cookies in most browsers, cookies literally just serve as some temporary storage for websites on your local machine. Cookies existing or not existing arent what control whether you are tracked, especially given all the fancy fingerprinting that goes on nowadays.
Just use a browser that doesn’t save cookies. Then accept all.
Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.
Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.
…how does that help?
Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.
Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Custom -> All cookies (will cause websites to break)
Open site -> it breaks -> do i really need it? (no) Move on to the next site. (yes) Ctrl+I -> Permissions -> Set Cookies - uncheck “Use Default” - Allow
Consent-o-matic is your friend 🌞
Also, enabling cookie notice blocklists on ublock origin
Been using it for a long time. In my experience it covers maybe 30 or 40% of sites only.
I still don’t care about cookies seems to work for the rest for me!
The issue about that extension is how it handles consent.
In most cases, the add-on just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. 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
You should be aware that it will often just accept all cookies, because that is easier.
I’ll have to give this a shot. Thanks for the link!
