Say "goodbye" to cookies and cookie banners with vanilla Firefox

For those that don’t know, Firefox has in-built support for automatically rejecting cookies and blocking the cookie banners from popping up.

To enable this feature, go to about:config, and perform the following:

  • change cookiebanners.service.mode from 0 to 2

To have this functionality in Private browsing mode, you should also:

  • change cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing from 0 to 2.

All Power to the People!

erAck,
@erAck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Careful, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button. So use that only if cookies are disabled or otherwise controlled, for example by an AddOn like Cookie AutoDelete. If not, rather use mode 1 that hits only a Reject All button if available but ignores others.

See …mozilla.org/…/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/ and github.com/mozilla/cookie-banner-rules-list

fourstepper,

This is awesome, thanks!

Engywuck,

This isn’t anything new. Firefox lost the lead ages ago (thanks, Mozilla):

brave.com/…/21-blocking-cookie-notices/

pastelsquirrel,

a chrome reskin, cryptominer and the CEO’s an anti-LGBT fascist. no thanks.

zergling_man,

So, firefox achieving feature parity with lynx? :^)

SIGSEGV,

CLI is king ;-)

tom42,
@tom42@beehaw.org avatar

According to Mozilla setting both to the value 1 is the better idea. The fallback then won’t be “Accept all”.

abrahamisaninja,

Oh boy this is great for privacy but it’s also going to break a lot of academic shit that relies on cookies for authentication

noodlejetski,

or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

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