How do you deal with endless cookies dialogues?

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless “accept/reject cookies” dialogues?

Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is …just awful.

Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it’s rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly — or at least not trying to “get you”. At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for “reject all” or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I’ve just seen too many of them where clicking anything but “accept all” will lead to some sort of visual punishment.

Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just … darn … everywhere, all the frickin’ time.

Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just “accept all” muscle memory? Plugins? Using just one site (lemmy.world, obviously) and nothing else? Something better?

Bonus, question (technical take): is there a perspective that this could be dealt on browser technical level? To me it smells like the kind of problem that could be solved in a similar way like language – ie. via HTTP headers that come from browser preferences.

Navarian,

The annoyances filters in uBlock Origin take care of these, I believe there are a few filters specifically for this exact issue, named appropriately.

netvor,
@netvor@lemmy.world avatar

what… I’ve had uBlock Origin enabled all the time, just never went to settings… :-D

Konlanx,

Where exactly did you find that setting?

Pechente,

Click the uBlock icon > click the gear in the bottom right > click the second tab called “filter lists” > extend “annoyances” category > pick “adguard - cookie notices”

Konlanx,

Thank you so much!

Grimlo9ic,
@Grimlo9ic@kbin.social avatar

What a top-tier tip. I'm one of those people who have uBlock Origin but never knew about this. Thank you!

Nomadin,

Thank you! Great tip!

kaladininskyrim,

Do you know if there is a difference between AdGuard and EasyList lists? or if any of the two are more trustworthy?

ryven,
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Honestly I just enabled all of them on the grounds that blocking too many things is probably preferable to not blocking enough.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Thanks for this...I just did it...what exactly does it do?

FireRetardant,

Do you know how it handles the actual cookies? Does it auto accept/reject or just block the site from making cookies?

count0,
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

There’s CookieAutoDelete (or anonymous tabs, containers, …) for the other side of this issue.

DevCat,
@DevCat@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, I have mine setup to autodelete cookies from tabs I’ve closed after 15 seconds. I just “accept all” cookies and don’t worry about it.

nothacking,

It simply hides them, equivalent to just not doing anything. It would be illegal in the EU if the site tracked users in this case, but U block can also block trackers, so even if they tried it wouldn’t work.

Navarian,

I think it just hides the banners and popups, not accepting or declining. I’m not 100% though.

JohnDClay,

Is there a way to get it on mobile?

TheGreenGolem,

Firefox has addons on mobile, e.g. uBlock origin.

boredtortoise,

Does anyone know of a comprehensive cookie modal list for it? It still shows many with all the annoyance lists active

TheGreenGolem,

Firefox has addons on mobile, e.g. uBlock origin.

mrmanager,
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

Had no idea this existed. Thanks!

TheGreenGolem,

Firefox has addons on mobile, e.g. uBlock origin.

livedeified,
@livedeified@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been dabbling with duckduckgo recently. there’s a function in the browser settings to allow only what’s necessary for the site.

CAPSLOCKFTW,

noScript with blocking all Scripts by default. Most sites rely on javascript to ask you the cookie question. Of course that will disable all other javascript functionality which i have to enable manually if I need it.

Geth,

I’ve tried the no JavaScript experience for a couple of months, but honestly it breaks to much of the internet for it to be a solution for most people. For me personally it was a worse experience than just having it fully enabled.

sramder,

Consent-o-matic seems to work about 80% of the time. I run the Firefox plugin at home and the Safari extension on my phone.

scarabic,

Does it deny-o-matic?

sramder,

I think the desktop version lets you configure more fine grained preferences, but yes it’s designed to deny by default.

Wowiejr,

I don’t have a helpful answer, I’m just commenting so I can find out if anyone else does…

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s not how this works. Save the post if you want to return to it later. You will not be notified of new answers in this thread if you comment.

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