A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".
Or, if you already use uBlock Origin and would rather use its performant, customizable, extensible filtering capabilities instead of adding (and trusting!) yet another addon, just check the "EasyList Cookie" list in your Filter Lists :) .
Honestly, I think it is our job as the creators/hackers to come up with a better solution. The problem is very real, and needs to be fixed. But no good solution has ever been created by lawyers. Ever. So here we are, left with a forest of cookie warnings that perfectly break the internet.
So here is a proposal:
What if a user could declare her/his consent settings _before_ opening the website? There would no longer be a need for consent dialogues, right?
One way to achieve that would be to take an example from the UTM parameters. A browser/User could just use ?utm_consent=all, ?utm_consent=minimal, and ?utm_consent=deny to indicate the level of consent. Browsers could offer it as a standard setting and automatically amend it to any URL. Websites could just drop the consent dialogue whenever that UTM is set.
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This extension is awesome.
It wouldn’t be so necessary if all those websites asking for my permission to use cookies would actually use a cookie to store that permission / preference so they don’t ask again every damn time. This is really the reason why I use this extension - I didn’t mind so much reviewing the permissions once for each site, but having to do it constantly really became too much after a certain point.
I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear.
The only downside is that some sites are broken by this extension. Sometimes you end up on a site where the page is disabled and you cannot click on things. Usually turning off the extension and clicking manually the banner fixes the issue.
So here are the three extensions I can’t live without:
- ublock origin
- I don’t care about cookies
- cookie auto delete.
They make the internet usable.
By the same developer: the No Thanks extension. Blocks most newsletter offers, subscription begging views, etc.
It costs a bit of money, but when asked, an invoice is provided so you can deduct it as a business, or ask your boss to pay.
I suppose I'll add this to the growing constellation of add-ons considered essential just to even get around the web without annoying, managerially-imposed dark patterns interrupting my workflow.
They should just rename cookies to biscuits and be done with it for good.
Hush performs a similar function for Safari users.
I use this javascript bookmarklet to remove sticky headers/footers/popups:
I use Firefox Focus as my primary browser on the phone. I get some kind of thrill agreeing to cookies from sites that are going to disappear from my history in minutes.
Excellent. I hate having to constantly click through those.
I think this would actually massively increase security because you won’t be mindlessly clicking Yes to whatever a website says.
The problem with cookie popups is that it trains people to just click Yes and OK without thinking and reading. At the end we get blind to them and we click and accept things which are much more important, download viruses, click bad links or whatever.
What's needed is better default protection by the law to stop companies collecting and using data.
He offers ubo/abp block lists and says his extension accepts the policy when necessary. But there is no configuration, no way to add new site rules, and no source repo (would have to open the xpi myself).
It seems more useful to write my own Greasemonkey script, instead. At least when I encounter a site like this, which I couldn't think of.
It would be even more useful if extension had additional rules to always set minimal permissions level for a website; easier when using standard cookie banners, harder for custom coded ones. Alternative solution: individual cookie allow/block list, so only useful (language settings, login etc.) cookies could be set.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/EstelMP/status/1369936040702730241
The new E-Privacy Directive (if it doesn't get watered down) might help with the cookie wall problem.
How do you stay logged in without cookies? Aren’t they vital to logging in anywhere?
Those cookie warnings are a classic ill-conceived solution. No user reads it, everyone is just clicking "Accept". So what privacy gain do we get?
Why not program that extension to refuse cookie instead?
What we should have instead of custom cookie banners is the browser asking. As it's being done with other APIs too.
How does the extensions work. Does it have a hardcoded database with an entry for each website?
I do not like this extension. I would rather use this one, which is the work of a public university: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
I have been using this for months and it hugely improved my web browsing experience. I would love it to become a browser feature at some point.
(Yes, I really dislike how the "privacy" warriors are dragging everyone into their pointless crusades.)
This extension would be a good addition to the tor browser.
“If you surf anonymously" Does he confuse incognito mode with anonymous surfing?
How did this take so long to be made? I'll install this and try it tomorrow.
The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.