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ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners (www.kevinthetechguy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 73 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I did not know that I already had the tool in my hands.

uBlock Origin is the best ad blocker imaginable.

But it can do something I always wanted: Get rid of cookie popups (but without acception them automatically).

Visiting a new website and being able to read the content directly feels so weird, although it should be normal.

I hope, EU legislation will force websites to accept a global "Auto-decline"/"Minimum-possible" configurable in the web browser, in which case no banner can be shown. IMO, that's how it should have always been.

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  • [–] 56 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I hope, EU legislation will force websites to accept a global “Auto-decline”/“Minimum-possible” configurable in the web browser, in which case no banner can be shown. IMO, that’s how it should have always been.

    The banner is a stupid solution. Tracking and ad profiles should be completely banned instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah. The idea that tracking should require explicit consent sounds pretty good at first, but we now the result is that users are constantly nagged and harassed and annoyed until they finally "consent" - at which point everything becomes silky smooth.

    So yeah, I agree that this kind of thing should be simply banned, to remove any inconvenience or confusion from the whole thing.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    There is also "consent o matic", banner does appear but go away in less than a second and auto decline as possible. Does not work on 100% of website but still does a good job.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The AdBlock blocklist does accept cookie banners without concenting to tracking, when possible.

    Check out the rules. It doesn't just zap the overlay, it executes some custom js for every site.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    adblock? is that the one that accepts money for whitelisting adds? :D

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