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Accepting Cookies (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/12337562

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[–] 60 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How does uBlock Origin help here, though?
I don't think it blocks Cookie banners?

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  • [–] 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It can hide the popup but all the rapist advertising companies take that as yes because you didn't say no.

    Use consent-o-matic to automatically opt out.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't matter if I opt in or out if I just delete them all on closing the browser and they all disappear.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox and Chrome.

    Source

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Don't do that.

    Cookie extensions

    ❗️Sanitizing in-session is a false sense of privacy. They do nothing for IP tracking. Even Tor Browser does not sanitize in-session e.g. when you request a new circuit. A new ID requires both full sanitizing and a new IP. The same applies to Firefox

    ❗️Cookie extensions can lack APIs or implementation of them to properly sanitize: e.g.

    ⚠️ [last checked Nov 2024], Cookie Auto Delete even instructs it's users to disable Total Cookie Protection - ⚠️ DO NOT DO THIS ⚠️

    As of Firefox 86, strict mode is not supported at this time due to missing APIs to handle the Total Cookie Protection [... followed by instructions]

    https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I don't get it. Of course it doesn't help with IP tracking of fingerprinting, but it deletes all cookies when I leave a site. My browsers runs very long on desktop and mobile, so Firefox's 'Delete cookies on close' doesn't help much.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is that needed if ublock already stops all the tracking scripts from loading?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes. Because cookies are used for tracking and can be set without the aid of Javascript.

    For anyone interested, cookies pre-date Javascript and are baked in the HTTP protocol by way of a Set-Cookie header that the browser responds to by storing whatever information accompanies the Set-Cookie header; usually a unique id that can then be used to track what pages on a domain you visit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    uMatrix once again to the rescue. It can block cookies. The only downside to uMatrix is that it dis-/allows based on su domain, so you can't accept a log-in cookie and reject the tracking cookie, if they are served by the same subdomain.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    By default it does nothing about the banners, but blocks most tracking cookies. With some config, it can both enforce a comprehensive cookie policy you set, and hide the banners for you.

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