Hey!

I would like to hear from you if you have a successful method to block the various cookie banners like:

  • small banners
  • full page banners with complicated structure
  • full page banners which say ‘pay or accept’
  • bonus points for newsletter popups

I do use uBlock and PiHole. But when I used extensive lists which handled cookies, my experience was that most websites broke some kind or another.

So please share your successful ways with me :)

  • Phuntis@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    ublock origin has inbuilt filters you can turn on for cookie popups that work for almost every site I’ve been to I almost never see them anymore ublock origin is just all around great

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    1 year ago

    It’s sad to see companies’ malicious compliance working. They make it tedious so users get exasperated with it and just accept it.

    • kniescherz@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Well to be honest, even if each and every website wouldnt use dar patterns and there is a clear choice to refuse with one click, it would still be obnoxious to decline everytime you visit a site.

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        1 year ago

        “Required cookies” is already a category, under which a cookie could be placed to remember your choice. But that would be counter to their interests.

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      1 year ago

      don’t use ghostery it’s a honeypot owned by an ad/tracking company

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the answer. If I remember correctly, this plugin works by accepting all cookies in the background. Is this correct?

      If so, do you also have some kind of cookie cleanup policy/plugin? Or do you really dont care about cookies?

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I think it does auto accept.

        I don’t really have anything specific for cookies, just doing the basics with uBlock + Firefox + Firefox containers. I do keep my facebook/instagram/other problem-logins in separate containers, but that’s about it. I saved this thread in case someone else has other suggestions :)