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YSK that uBlock Origin has non-default filters to block cookie consent notices (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* by to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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If you go to uBlock Origin's settings and then select 'Filter lists', there's a list maintained by EasyList and another by AdGuard that both block cookie notices. To my understanding, this isn't enabled by default (at least it wasn't when I installed uBO).

Apologies if this is common knowledge; I didn't know about it until recently.

Why YSK: Cookie consent pop-ups are annoyances full of dark patterns designed to frustrate you into affirmatively opting into superfluous data collection and letting companies profit off your information. Saving just a few seconds on pages you browse adds up, and this is especially true if you use something like Cookie AutoDelete that makes your answers to these pop-ups transient.

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

There's also the Consent-O-Matic browser extension to automatically decline cookies

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I disabled it, I don't remember what was the issue, I'll have a try again, thanks for the reminder

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I find it works 90% of the time. Which makes the 10% it doesn’t work annoying because I’m not used to declining cookies anymore 😅

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    • [–] 65 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If only my friends believed me that dark patterns were real.

    I'm the paranoid crazy one because I say to get the hell off fb and x.

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    • [–] 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    It's not enabled by default. I too just learned about this recently.

    Edit:

    On the topic of uBlock Origin, you can also use it to filter out content on the web version of Lemmy since it doesn't have a native keyword filtering feature. Just add to "my filters" and swap in your own instance.

    For comments:
    feddit.uk##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/elon/i)))

    For posts:
    feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/elon/i))

    For urls:
    feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(a[href*="elon.com"])

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ublock, filter out the term "linux" and "trump" on lemmy.

    ......huh, look at that. Lemmy has 6 posts total. Thats 2 more than yesterday! The fediverse is growing!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    I have quite the extensive list I've been building over the past few years and so far my record is only 3 posts visible on the frontpage. Most of the time it's nowhere that bad though, but I do notice that it's putting in a lot of work.

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    • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Consent o Matic doesn't just hide them but actually declines the banners actively. Maybe it has an impact on some statistics that will probably never matter.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    That's a good point, although I have no idea if that actually matters since you IIRC have to affirmatively consent under the GDPR. I try not to add more browser extensions than I strictly need to (and try to only use very popular ones) to try to have some small defense against fingerprinting (even though that's rough to avoid these days).

    Browser extensions like Consent-O-Matic also grant yet another piece of software access to nearly every aspect of my digital life – facilitated mainly through the browser – although it being under the MIT License, recommended by Mozilla, and developed by researchers at Aarhaus' CAVI offset that risk a lot.

    As long as uBO blocks them, that's good enough for me.

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    • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    In the annoyances you can block the log in with Google/Facebook too

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Blocking accounts.google.com and facebook.com (you can unblock them on google/facebook if you actually use google/facebook) (in the "advanced mode" view that tells you what third party domains are on a page) gets rid of those, too!

    (or maybe it was a different facebook domain, I dunno, we just block everything facebook on sight)

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    • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I just enable every filter except for regional

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why not regional?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    from what I know, they're only meant to be used as a last resort if a website in a certain language still loads ads. those filters do a blanket ban on a lot of addresses, so they break many sites if you get girlbossy and enable them all

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    • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I've enabled it yet I still see cookie notices on a bunch of websites. StackOverflow for example.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago*

    StackOverflow was my inclination for searching this last week because it pops up the massive cookie banner on EVERY single page load for me. I enabled both the "Cookie Notices" and "Annoyances" lists at the same time - one of them handled it and I think it was Annoyances if I'm remembering correctly.

    Try enabling that one too if you haven't already.

    EDIT: Just realized I need to enable the social widgets list too : D

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Thanks for the info. Like many, I use "I don't care about cookies", still sometimes I had to disable on some sites otherwise those became impossible to login or simply access. Is this ublock setting similar?

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Can anyone recommend a good self destruction cookie add on for Firefox?

    Or a browser better than Firefox and Chrome, both for Linux and for Android?

    Much appreciated!

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

    Neat, thanks.

    I use another extension called "I don't care about cookies" which is good, but does occasionally get confused.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This just accepts all cookies. The default should be to deny them which is what consent-o-matic tries to do. With ublock it's like you're ignoring the pop-up which would be the next best thing.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    So as I wrote in other comments, I selected this filter list and cookies warning disappeared. After a couple of days I noticed a simple troubleshooting, login (in feddit for example) can't be permanent and requires login any time. I guess there's no way out.

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