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.
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.
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.
It is not fine, you still need to be informed and accept
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.
That plus containerised tabs for “dirty” websites
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
In my experience uBlock origin doesn’t really get rid of cookie consent banners/dark patterns. Damn good at bonking ads though.
Also getting rid of cookie banners doesn’t mean the site won’t track with third party cookies. The cookies are ON by default and until you tell them to turn it OFF, they keep the cookies on.
In the filter lists, there are three lists named annoyances. Just enable one of them, and these banners will be gone.
See 2nd panel of comic.
2nd panel means you have to do it again and again for every new website you visit, or if you clear cookies regularly. Using the ublock addon, you have to enable this setting once, and it is persistent across sessions.
Did you enable everything? I think the default is just ad block
having too many filters slows down pages significantly, you should keep only those you actually need
are you sure you didn’t forget to install the filter list? it’s not on by default
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
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/
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
Holy shit that’s a good idea
I wonder how difficult it would be
I just press ctrl+i and add the website as an exception :P
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.
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.
Thanks, but not thanks, I don’t want to be logging in every site every single time I restart my browser; I just simply use AdNauseam with DandelionSprout lists (not all tho), NoCoin lists, the integrated lists, then I use Decentraleyes for not having to depend on external CDNs for almost anything, HaGeZi as my DNS provider, and OpenSnitch for system-wide interactive blocking of any suspicious domains or IPs…
Oh, and hBlock, just to add a little more of paranoia, and ClamAV with Clamd and ClamOnAcc.
If you were truly paranoid youd log into every site every time with an offline password manager protected by a yubikey.
Yubikey had a problem, yubico sold old devices with the problem and initially didn’t want to patch it at all so they are pretty crispy burned if you are truly paranoid https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulnerable-to-cloning-attacks-thanks-to-newly-discovered-side-channel/
damn wtf. good thing I’m not that paranoid :P
I can’t afford a YubiKey, and also I don’t have the time to do that ad infinitum. Just not my thing.
99.5% browsing in private mode
folds up the mat and goes home
Consent-o-matic is good too
I prefer to make things explicit if it can
Cookie autodelete works great together with Firefox containers. Then add I don’t care about cookies and the Internet becomes usable again.
