Best annoyance reduction add-on stack?

Crul, 7 months ago

Kill Sticky to “Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you’re trying to see.”

Notes:

• In some pages it removes too much and it breaks the page.
• It’s not automatic, you need to click it manually. Because the previous point, it wouldn’t be practical to always execute it.

bazzett, 7 months ago

Configure uBlock Origin in medium mode and set Firefox to delete cookies on quitting. Easy.

hal_5700X, 7 months ago

Configure uBlock Origin in medium mode

github.com/gorhill/…/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

set Firefox to delete cookies on quitting

Open the Application Menu (the three lines next to the puzzle piece) > Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies & Site Data > Click the Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed box > Done

bazzett, 7 months ago

Thanks! I wrote that when on mobile, so I didn’t think to add instructions 😅. Also, if the user needs to allow some cookies, they can be set at Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies & Site Data > Manage Exceptions.

library_napper, 7 months ago

Pretty sure I get more cookie banners because my cookies auto delete

bazzett, 7 months ago

Is to prevent that that you configure UBO in medium mode. Since many cookie banners are loaded by a 3rd party script, they’re blocked by UBO when configured this way. For the rest I use one of the “Annoyances” filter that come preinstalled. Since the time I adopted this method (~3 years) I think I can count the number of cookie banners I’ve seen with the fingers of one hand.

sugar_in_your_tea, 7 months ago

I feel like I would get a ton more captchas if I delete cookies every time. I mostly just use uBlock Origin.

oicasado, 7 months ago

I also go to Settings > site permissions (or the equivalent) and block requests from sites

LynneOfFlowers, 7 months ago

I also use SponsorBlock for YouTube, which skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos (and optionally other kinds of segments like intros, self promos, etc.) it’s crowd-sourced for identifying the segments but for almost all the videos I watch someone has already marked at least the sponsor segments

GravitySpoiled, 7 months ago

I’m on istilldontcareaboutcookies and cookie autodelete. Who cares if they save cookies for the session?

boredtortoise, 7 months ago

I’d prefer to still have only the necessary and useful cookies retained.

tfw_no_toiletpaper, 7 months ago

Yes same setup here. The annoying popups are worse for me than cookies being saved just for one session.