I’m so fed up of these cookie popups requiring a few extra clicks to reject, are there any extensions that will automatically opt out or reject additional cookies?
@Weslee consent-o-matic, made by @midasnouwens https://consentomatic.au.dk. the one recommended below auto accepts them or blocks the notice, while consent-o-matic sends the legally binding reject signal.
Been using this a couple of weeks and it is great. Looking forward to more add-ons like this coming to Firefox for Android.
I would also recommend consent-o-matic. It works really well, and has a really simple interface for letting the devs know when it doesn’t work.
They should detect if you’re in the EU and auto report the sites haha
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
Nice!
Does it work for Firefox on Android?
It works in the current Firefox for Android beta version.
Extensions will soon be ported to mobile Firefox, if the developers do it
You can already use most extensions with Firefox mobile but its a pain in the ass… You have to create an add-on collection… Mozilla is corrupted to the bone nowadays
Having a harder, unofficial way currently and soon an easy, official one is corrupt?
no, desktop only for now
Ublock origin, using the “annoyences” filter list
akaik that doesn’t reject the cookies, which are accepted by default.
Not if the site is actually GDPR compliant they are not. You are only allowed to set tracking cookies after consent has been obtained, which cannot be assumed before the visitor has made a choice.
Omg, thank you so much!
Consent-o-matic automatically goes through the cookie banner and makes sure everything is disabled instead of simply blocking the banner
Strongly recommend this one. It’s also available for chromium, Safari, and iOS
Thank you, I’ll check it out
uBlock Origin to block 3rd party JS.
NoScript to specifically allow certain functions of certain domains serving JS.
Both of these combined make sure I never see such banners because, well, no JS allowed for most things.
Also Cookie Autodelete with Firefox containers. Even if someone happened to store cookies in my browser, they are gone by the time I close the tab. Also FF containers prevent the proliferation of cookies across tabs if in different profiles.
Does noscript blocks unnecessary JavaScript automatically, or do we need to manually add rules?
NoScript blocks (almost) everything by default. You can then allow, temporarily allow, or selectively allow specific types of capabilities that JS from a domain can run, on either every page or on the specific FQDN. Or you can explicitly block the script(s).
The reason I said almost in the first line is because you can customise the default behaviour of NoScript to allow/disallow certain capabilities to scripts you haven’t provided custom permissions/encountered before.
This is very interesting, I will try right away.
Edit: Tried it, and it broke almost every site I use. Even lemmy didn’t work. It doesn’t look like it can be used without manual intervention, like ublock.
Well, of course. NoScript blocks all JS by default other than the capabilities allowed in the “default” mode. uBlock Origin allows all JS by default, but it can be made to act like NoScript in that it too will block JS by default.
I have manually worked out which domains need to be allowed (uBlock + NoScript) and which capabilities to allow from each domain (NoScript, I do not see how one can do this in uBlock) in sites that I visit a lot (lemmy, old.reddit, youtube, piped etc). For the rest of the internet, my JS is turned off (surprisingly, most things work for my usage, but I just read blogs/text-based content for the most part when I’m surfing the internet). YMMV
As an aside you can ditch Noscript if you put ublock into medium mode.
I have tried to do this, and unless I’m missing something very obvious, this is incorrect (happy to be corrected!).
I generally tend to use hard mode with uBlock Origin, and for a while I tried to use it without NoScript, however I realised that even though I can allow/block certain domains (and I really like the toggle to disable all 3rd party domains in uBlock), I cannot fine-tune the capabilities allowed for each domain.
For example (on the “hard-mode” page for uBlock Origin on Github):
uBlock Origin didn’t even let me:
- See the domain
api.github.com(I think there is a way to be more granular but maybe I just don’t see it). - Didn’t allow me to disallow certain capabilities for this specific subdomain either (which NoScript did).
Also, I have sometimes come across discrepancies in the domains that each extension displays to me. All of this considered, I’m running both. Please let me know if there is a way around it, since I would like to simplify my life with just one extension, however I do not see how the void left behind by uninstalling NoScript can be filled by uBlock.
Cheers
Sorry, I’ve not played with hard mode. I did use to use uMatrix, but as that’s been deprecated and I find medium mode sufficient I can’t be of much help, I’m afraid. Hope you manage figure it out.
- See the domain
@furzegulo consent-o-matic, made by @midasnouwens https://consentomatic.au.dk. the idontcareaboutcookies one doesn’t do what you want as it auto accepts them or blocks the notice, while consent-o-matic sends a legally binding reject signal.
It would be cool if this one could get the “recommended” status from Firefox. Would get more installs that way
i see, i’ll install it right away. thanks!
Works good with cookie autodelete https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
Use it with auto cookie delete
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Thanks will look into this
Not an answer, but a warning: I’ve tried a couple of them and they may break some sites and I found very difficult to debug (probably because how many addons I have). If you notice weird things, try disabling the addon.
I just installed the recommmended Consent-O-Matic and it does work in the only website I remember was broken with other addons. Looks promising, thanks!
Sounds good, thank you!
You can block popups by ticking the proper filters in ublock origion filter lists
This is it. Lots of complicated answers in this thread. It’s built into uBlock, just not on by default.
I started using consent-o-matic on my android phone in Mull, this does exactly what you describes. It accepts and rejects the settings you like.
Works great on firefox desktop too
I use in Vivaldi blocker this filterlists, which can be added also in uBO, they are working fine.
I’m guessing that would also work on ublock origin on Firefox?
I think so, at least for me it works fine, never seen a cookie advice again. Try it Alternatively you can use this extension apart of uBO, in case when the site require to desactivate the adblocker.
Ghostery has a never consent option, so the popups show up shortly and are automatically closed. Doe not work 100% of times, but most times. For me, it’s perfectly suitable.
Thank you, I’ll check it out
Something I didn’t realize I needed until I read this. Thanks for the post
Better use the fork I still don’t care about cookies. The reason why is stated on the GitHub page.
Thanks, I didn’t know about this, have been using ‘i don’t care about cookies’ for ages. Mozilla should really let us know if an extension gets acquired.
I switched over thanks to you, didn’t know that avast acquired the original addon.
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Avast bought it.
Thanks sir the note.
That’s what i use. Unfortunately it breaks some sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/
One of those extensions recommended by Mozilla.
Doesnt this mean that you’re by default agreeing to the cookies though ? I’ve tested not responding to the pop up on several websites and they all write cookies if you don’t respond
Firefox Nightly has cool Cookie Banner Reduction feature, which will be available to stable eventually.
Oh nice! Can’t wait for it to come to stable build!
Remember to use Firefox containers, then you can accept all the cookies you want and they will never see outside of the container (you have to put the website in a container though)
It’s pretty laborious to do this for casual browsing though. The websites I visit regularly where it’d be worth configuring this aren’t the ones with cookies I’m worried about.
Found the answer
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
