On Firefox check out the extension named Consent-O-Matic.
Sadly it doesn’t always work.
60 percent of the time, it works, all the time.
Seriously, it works in most cases, so it’ll still improve the situation from having to go through the prompts on all sites to going through them on some sites.
It has a “report this site as broken” button to help improve it.
Thanks, I’ll check that out!
Never heard of this before, thanks!
Works for Safari on iOS as well.
I find Consent-O-Matic bad tbh. It sometines works sometimes not. Something like “I don’t care about cookies” is better and usually works.
The problem with that one in particular is that it accepts, insinuated or otherwise, the default, which is “yes I accept all cookies.”
Are you sure? I was sure that it declines every option that it can and if not, then just hide it. Because whenever I disable the extension, I see the cookie popup just again.
In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do). It doesn’t delete cookies.
So it’s a mixed bag on what it will do. Personally I’d rather be annoyed by the pop than not know what it’s doing.
Other than dedicated extensions there is a filter to enable in ublock origin under the annoyances section for cookie popups
Ublock origin is the answer to so many questions
The condom of the internet
I hope it never breaks.
Thanks for mentioning this, I have been using it for years and never cared to look it up within the settings of it… Yeah it works that well.
This is the real answer
ublock Origin, add the filter list “EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices”.
It tries to deny by default.on Firefox Desktop go to about:config and toggle cookiebanners.service.mode and toggle it from 0 to 1. You can also put it on 2 but 2 accepts the cookies if it can’t figure out how to reject. Whereas one always auto rejects when possible and if it can’t figure it out, it will just not do anything although this is very rare and leave it up to you
Thank you!
Consent-O-Matic addon, although it often fails, and the uBlock filter list for specifically this. Covers the absolute majority of sites I typically end up visiting. I hope one day in the future the EU enforces the “Do Not Track” browser option to be a binding rejection of all third party cookies.
All those pop ups have done is enshittify the internet. They accomplish nothing.
I still get a lot of them with just “accept” and “read our policy” as options
I zap them with uBO. I refuse to click accept on that shit.
What is the non uBO way to achieve this???
Standard behaviour is for them to act like if you’ve accepted until you say otherwise, it’s all bullshit
Sure, but I refuse to click accept out of principle
There’s no EU rule that dictates how sites have to get consent. They just all chose malicious compliance. If a site wanted to, they could make it a click or two.
Even worse: Popups that make it harder to deny than to consent actually violate the law, but no one has taken the effort to drag this through the courts yet.
There used to be no option at all to avoid cookies. Now there is. That’s progress, not “enshittification”.
If using Android, the Ghostery browser has an option to auto-reject these.
Same as on desktop, ghostery is great (the extension for Firefox)
Just know they have a history of selling user data. Also, I believe uBO covers what ghostery does now so you don’t really need it anymore if you already have uBO.
Mostly through extensions. Someone mentioned Consent-O-Matic - I tend to just whitelist JS required for the page to function as much as I need it to (yes, a lot of the internet is broken for me but I don’t care) so I hardly ever see such pop-ups
There is a Firefox extension called “I don’t care about cookies” and since I’ve installed it, I haven’t seen any pop-ups like these anymore. But if you have uBlock Origin installed already, better follow the advice of other commenters ;)
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Browser plugin named “I still don’t want any cookies”
Another addon I heard of was “I dont care about cookies”
So it must press accept or what?
That’s what the companies want you to do. That’s why it’s so annoying. You’re really just going to go along with it?
uBlockOrigin has a ‘block all pop-ups on this site’ button. When they chose to use this tactic, I prefer an extension called ‘Block site’ … you click the button, answer the question ‘yes’ and it will not let you go there again by accident.
Adguard ad blocker is fantastic for Android and desktop, although it is not free, in my opinion it is worth the price. It blocks all annoying things, including popups.
Unlock Origin is a solid free choice, a close second in performance.
Most of the time I just close the tab. Shitty popup sites aren’t worth my time
That is pretty much all the Internet tabs boy.
