"How to bypass and block infuriating cookie popups" 🙄🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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!
@Thorned_Rose On a side note on those cookies: "all but necessary". Even with 0 cookies, the website will open, nothing will explode, everything will be OK 😅
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)
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
+ 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)
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.
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 !
@peregus@hellfire103 Yes and no. Yes: Some poorly programmed websites require JS. No: Nonetheless you can employ NoScript to fine-grained block JS from evil domains. No harm is done when you allow the main domain (if necessary) but block crap such as doubleclick or google-analytics as "not trustworthy" (NoScript language).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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