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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by netvor to c/nostupidquestions
 

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless "accept/reject cookies" dialogues?

Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is ...just awful.

Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it's rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly


or at least not trying to "get you". At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for "reject all" or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I've just seen too many of them where clicking anything but "accept all" will lead to some sort of visual punishment.

Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just .. darn ... everywhere, all the frickin' time.

Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just "accept all" muscle memory? Plugins? Using just one site (lemmy.world, obviously) and nothing else? Something better?

Bonus, question (technical take): is there a perspective that this could be dealt on browser technical level? To me it smells like the kind of problem that could be solved in a similar way like language -- ie. via HTTP headers that come from browser preferences.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The annoyances filters in uBlock Origin take care of these, I believe there are a few filters specifically for this exact issue, named appropriately.

[–] netvor 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what.. I've had uBlock Origin enabled all the time, just never went to settings.. :-D

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where exactly did you find that setting?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Click the uBlock icon > click the gear in the bottom right > click the second tab called "filter lists" > extend "annoyances" category > pick "adguard - cookie notices"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

What a top-tier tip. I'm one of those people who have uBlock Origin but never knew about this. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if there is a difference between AdGuard and EasyList lists? or if any of the two are more trustworthy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I just enabled all of them on the grounds that blocking too many things is probably preferable to not blocking enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this...I just did it...what exactly does it do?

[–] netvor 1 points 4 months ago

Looks like it's moved from "Annoyances" to own category, so in "Filter lists", it's "Cookie notices" (with several related items)

[–] FireRetardant 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you know how it handles the actual cookies? Does it auto accept/reject or just block the site from making cookies?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It simply hides them, equivalent to just not doing anything. It would be illegal in the EU if the site tracked users in this case, but U block can also block trackers, so even if they tried it wouldn't work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's CookieAutoDelete (or anonymous tabs, containers, ...) for the other side of this issue.

[–] DevCat 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, I have mine setup to autodelete cookies from tabs I've closed after 15 seconds. I just "accept all" cookies and don't worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it just hides the banners and popups, not accepting or declining. I'm not 100% though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had no idea this existed. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a way to get it on mobile?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox has addons on mobile, e.g. uBlock origin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does anyone know of a comprehensive cookie modal list for it? It still shows many with all the annoyance lists active