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.
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.
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.
>No doubt in the hope of making people mad at the EU.
We should be mad at the EU. They could have easily written a clause into the law saying companies must respect the Do-not-track header from the browser. But for whatever reason, they chose not to.
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.
This is why I use it too. UBlock and other options remove the banner or consent screens fine, but this breaks functionality sometimes. Even not accepting the required cookies can break basic functionality.
”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.
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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.
We should be mad at the EU. They could have easily written a clause into the law saying companies must respect the Do-not-track header from the browser. But for whatever reason, they chose not to.
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.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-auto-d...
- https://github.com/JobcenterTycoon/cookie-auto-decline
Not sure if it's as advanced, but does a good job at declining or simply hiding the banners.