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Accepting Cookies
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fixed
And,
I want some of them to stay though, it wouldn't be a huge hassle to not have them, but I'm a bit lazy...
I wish there was an option to clear third-party cookies automatically
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
I'm not aware of this. Can you elaborate?
Essentially, when browsers started to initially implement toggles to block third party cookies more than a decade ago, advertisers in response pressured website hosts to mark their cookies as "essential/required" (AKA forced cookies). You will not get the same revenue as a website host if you do not play ball with this, and some go even a step further by routing/disguising their cookies through trusted domains (google, amazon, etc...) to mask the "true source" , in an attempt to mitigate detection from basic browser filters.
Ublock Origin and the like are pretty good at catching most of them through crowdsourced lists though.
Holy shit that’s a good idea
Firefox's total cookie protrction is excelent. Basically cookies are sandboxed into site spesific boxes. So ie a facebook cookie can not be read by the favcebook script on another site. Only on the site that set the original cookie.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/features/total-cookie-protection/
I wonder how difficult it would be
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under settings,privacy and security, under cookies and site data (just above the "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" box) there's "manage exceptions" that will exclude your favorites from getting erased every time.
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I just press ctrl+i and add the website as an exception :P
The firefox extension "forget me not" allows you to fully control which cookies are retained, which are deleted, and how/when. It's easy to customize individual sites on the fly. And it's open source!
Combined with "I still don't care about cookies," you almost never see or have to deal with another cookie consent banner.
Pretty sure there is an "Allow" exception that you can use to keep cookies for the sites you want.
(I think you) click on the shield in the URL bar, and a small window comes, which should have a small toggle that says "Keep cookies and site data".
Cookie autodelete has whitelists, optionally different per container.
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In my experience uBlock origin doesn't really get rid of cookie consent banners/dark patterns. Damn good at bonking ads though.
are you sure you didn't forget to install the filter list? it's not on by default
Did you enable everything? I think the default is just ad block
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In the filter lists, there are three lists named annoyances. Just enable one of them, and these banners will be gone.
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Consent-o-matic is good too
I prefer to make things explicit if it can
“ NOOO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND BRO! OUR BUSINESS MODEL DOESN’T WORK IF WE CAN’T DO MASS SURVELIANCE BRO!”
I DECLARE "LEGITIMATE INTEREST" !!
That shit should be illegal. Accept all / reject all. That's it. If somebody is disabling cookies, literally nobody in the entire world wants any of them! "Oh yeah, please, only keep my location data but not the data about my purchase decisions"...
I have good news for you: In the EU (which forced everyone to have the cookie-accept-banners in the first place) it IS illegal.
The EU didn't force anyone to have the cookie banners. If the site only uses nessecary cookies - the kind you can't turn off in the prompt - there doesn't need to any prompts because that's perfectly fine. The intrusive, obnoxious and deliberate confusing popups are from data harvesters throwing a tantrum because they can't stalk you every waking second any more, and complying in the most malicious and disrespectful way they can.
Cookie banners are nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with tech-bros.
The EU knew about DNT signals before GDPR was finalized and decided to ignore them. I know, I was a web dev at that time (and still am, yes I'm ancient in internet years). This is on the EU and techbros, but having internet explorer and other browsers like firefox (not sure if chrome did it?) enabling DNT by default would make tech bros upset, and the EU couldn't have that, so they made the tech bros a little happier by allowing the consent banners instead.
From the working party back then, which was promptly rejected in the final GDPR we have today:
2016
The Working Party recommends rephrasing the requirements in the current Recital 66 of Directive 2009/136/EC. Instead of relying on website operators to obtain consent on behalf of third parties (such as advertising and social networks), manufacturers of browsers and other software or operating systems should be encouraged to develop, implement and ensure effective user empowerment, by offering control tools within the browser (or other software or operating system) such as Do Not Track (DNT), or other technical means that allow users to easily express and withdraw their specific consent, in accordance with Article 7 of the GDPR. Such tools can be offered to the user at the initial set-up with privacy-friendly default settings. Adherence to accepted technical and policy compliance standards must become a common practice. In addition, website operators should respect and adhere to browser control tools or other user preference settings.
2017
The Working Party recommends that terminal equipment and software must by default offer privacy protective settings, and offer clear options to users to confirm or change these default settings during installation. The settings must be easily accessible during use. Users must be enabled to signal specific consent through their browser settings. Privacy preferences should not be limited to interference by third parties or be limited to cookies. The Working Party strongly recommends to make adherence to the Do Not Track standard mandatory.
Heck, the W3C was even talking about working to make it happen.
Point is, the EU sucked up to corporations, surprise surprise.
Receipts:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/index_en.htm
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2016/wp240_en.pdf
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/redirection/document/44103
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I wonder how they can even find those 1142 partners to share my browsing data with
Poly culture is freaking wild.
Consent-o-matic is a better system, it actually inputs what you want it to answer for cookie banners
I don't really care if the box gets an answer or not
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Unfortunately some pages have started blocking scrolling when the cookie banner is not closed properly. That can also be fixed with uBlock of course, but I encounter that specific problem quite often.
Some sites do those blocks very haphazardly and you can get past just removing couple html-lines, they don't really care since most people won't bother to look (or don't know you can do it). At minimum it might just be "overflow: hidden" added on the top somewhere lmao. It's a pain to do but if it's something specific you need only once, might be worth to check
I want websites to all have a button that says “yeah you can sell my personal data but the website contractually agrees to give me half”
I still run umatrix in Firefox snd the level of calling out that even simple pages do is shocking. And likely all those called sites even for fonts are collecting something about you.
Yeah sure, give me whatever cookies aren't already blocked. I love cookies. Is that all of them?
(closes LibreWolf, which nukes everything except whitelisted sites)
...pathetic.
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99.5% browsing in private mode
folds up the mat and goes home
Is this page worth my time....nope
*closes tab
Onto the next tab
Not if you're using a Chromium based browser. Ublock Origin no longer supported in Chromium v3.
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Use adblocking DNS on your router, so you don't need to mess with every device separately
DNS blocking doesn't work with cookie prompts since they're from the same domain as the website. You need something like ublock origin which has the feature to block specific DOM components on the website.
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LibreWolf, is my response.
My setup is by default all cookies are session cookies unless manually changed.
Unlock doesn't really give that as an option but Vivaldi has it built in.
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