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consent-o-matic my goat

I love the concept of "Legitimate interest"... Like, why the hell anyone even consider storing my data in ILLEGITIMATE interest?

Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time

1. install ublock origin
2. enable "cookie notices" filters

I hoped it would be mentioned before, but in the EU It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

Report such sites for non-compliance.

Or worse: pay to decline cookies

I like the button that says reject non essential. That should be a required button.

You need to add 500 surveillance devices at the end of the top segment, and 498 at the end of the bottom segment

(for websites you don't use often)

1. Open link in private tab
2. Accept all

On many websites, the cookies are created no matter what you choose. It's a dark pattern to get you to accept all, yes, but In the end it's often meaningless.

Use a decent browser like librewolf which isolates cookies so only the site that created them can access them and clears all cookies on exit - this protects you from bad effects of cookies so you can just accept all. However, you're still susceptible to other methods of tracking (like IP address or browser fingerprint based tracking) unless you use Tor Browser or something similar.

I'm using Consent-O-Matic and it works surprisingly well.

Me on the work laptop

I am authoring an IETF draft to help with this. The agreement formats recently got approved by IEEE.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn't bring me related ads.

Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅

UBlock handles them well if you enable the cookie notice list. If one slips through, I now accept all because cookies are erased as soon as I close my browser

Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don't even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.

Why would you put extra effort into telling them you want cookies? Just block everything.

While you're wasting your time on clicking shitty popups, I'm already reading the page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/

Just open dev tools, storage, nuke them

I just use the I Don't Care About Cookies addon.

I don't know if it's just agreeing or disagreeing, but I suspect they're all selling your data regardless of what you pick.

What browsers really should implement is to store all third party cookies in a jar for the specific site I am on until I navigate to another domain or close the tab. The cookies are saved and returned to the 3rd party sites embedded in the site I use. But if the same 3rd party sites are also embedded in other sites, they have to send fresh cookies.
Cookies become useless for tracking and all the legislation specifically around them can be axed.

Settings > Privacy > Manage> Select unwanted cookies and remove them.

ALT+F4 also works or cmd+Q

I just run uMatrix and AdNauseam on Zen. If a banner shows up after allowing scripts its the good ol' right click > block element.

just hide cookie-related shit with ublock origin