by cluckindan
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- ”Cookie banner” is a misnomer. These consent popups are usually asking for you to consent to having hundreds if not thousands of companies build and sell a profile of you. They will combine your behavior and device data from various sources, identify you across platforms by linking device IDs, and ultimately sell your privacy to the highest bidder.
Typically, you can’t even turn these permissions off, nor can you deny consent or object to their purposes: they are increasingly claiming they are for ”fraud prevention” or some other technical purpose which doesn’t land under consent or the ”legitimate interest” umbrella.
- Simply enable the “cookie notices” list in ublock origin (available on every platform now, even iOS). According to the EU law if you don’t click accept it’s equivalent to denying.
- This extension gives me my preferered web experience. Namely it tries to automatically fill in the cookie pop-ups for you, instead of hiding it. You can actually enable functional cookies, which are useful. Then when filling the cookie popup doesn't work, you can fill it in manually. This is a huge improvement over the ublock hiding of popups, which actually breaks sites time to time.
by HelloUsername
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- Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625218
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479882
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562230
- What works pretty well for me is the "i don't care about cookies" extension for firefox; my default privacy policy is to throw away cookies when the browser restarts, which I do a few times per day anway.
- It always impresses me how its actually easy not to need these banners yet everyone will consistently participate in the civil disobedience of annoying their users. No doubt in the hope of making people mad at the EU.
To the point that people are worried when cookie banners are not required now. I have had a few worried conversations on why our site doesn’t have a cookie banner.
The answer is simple, we don’t track our users, and login is explicit consent and functionality which doesn’t require a prompt under GDPR.
by another_twist
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- Regular user here. Cant live without this addon, I absolutely love this. Its been a while since I have to manually dismiss a consent popup. Although the redirects from Google and company can get a bit annoying.
- I use this extension, but I am still always bombarded with the pop-ups, not sure if I set it up wrong or its not that useful.
by rtbruhan00
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- It’s the first extension I install on a new machine to keep my browsing flow from breaking every 5 seconds. Truly a 'quality of life' essential.
- This idea/execution isn't new right? Can someone explain what makes this different/better? Is this the ublock Origin of cookie banner hiders?
- Does this work better than built-in Firefox feature?
- Combine this with auto-delete of cookies except for your selection of sites and you're good.
by DonHopkins
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- Trump promised tariffs would bring Manufacturing Consent back. The consent industry voluntarily complied, as demanded -- fully automated and GDPR-compatible -- in stark contrast to his own well-documented contempt for and violation of consent.
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