On ublock origin (full version, not lite), click on the settings icon:

Then go to “Filter Lists” and enable both of the “Cookie Notices” options:

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    get the consent-o-matic plugin as well. it automaticly denies concent on most mainstream sites. you can even set the level.

  • dgbbad@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    14 hours ago

    I switched to AdNauseam and can’t tell any difference. And apparently AdNauseam actively is a hindrance to the ads instead of merely blocking them. Can anyone elaborate?

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Kinda depends on your perspective. It costs advertisers money and pays the website you’re visiting. If it’s a shitty site with a lot of ads, you’re effectively encouraging them putting in more ads. Since you’re “clicking” on every ad, and it’s not affecting your experience, it sends a message that stuffing the page with all those ads is good for revenue. It also just charges advertisers. I don’t personally think running ads inherently makes a company bad, so in my opinion clicking on ads out of spite so they get charged for a useless click is kind of not a great solution imho. It seems like it kinda benefits the wrong people, unless you’re exclusively going to great websites running ads for terrible companies.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      That’s basically it, it just creates a ton of traffic from your system by clicking on every ad as it blocks them.

      The idea being you ‘hide in the noise’ essentially. I’m not sure how well that works though.

      • dgbbad@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        11 hours ago

        Well so far it blocks everything just as good as ublock as far as I can tell. So if there is even a chance I’m fucking with the advertisers, I’m sticking with it.

  • drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee
    8·
    17 hours ago

    I occasionally do searches to see if there’s a blocker for those obnoxious, “Do you want to use the app?” lightboxes. To no avail. 😿

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      You can make your own filters. Press the zap button to temporarily block something (to test) and the eyedropper to permenantly make a filter.

      • drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee
        5·
        16 hours ago

        I try that in uBlock from time to time, but I still can’t seem to get it quite right. Testing in Duolingo right now, I set it to get rid of the app popup, as well as the semitransparent overlay that darkens the whole page. But there’s still some element on the page that restricts me from scrolling until I tap on the page. It’s an improvement, but still not quite there yet.

      • drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee
        2·
        16 hours ago

        I just imported it, and still have to tap before I can swipe. I also checked eBay after importing, and that app banner still pops up.

      • drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I had to look up ‘html modal’, yeah it sounds like the same thing. I learned web dev back in the xhtml days. Back then those kinds of boxes were only beginning to see popular usage, and there was no official tag for making them.

      • monarch@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        21 hours ago

        I turned basically all of the optional filters on a few days ago at the advice of another lemming and I did not even realise until now that the internet had gotten noticeably less annoying.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      9·
      24 hours ago

      Only on Android unfortuantely. On iOS, Firefox is just a skin for Safari with no plugin support (thanks Apple!).

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Safari has plugins! Get “Wipr 2”, it blocks ads, cookie banners, autoplaying videos, and all that garbage!

      • Not_Dav3@lemmy.world
        15·
        24 hours ago

        On iOS

        See, that’s where you went wrong.

        Edit : Orion has been suggested as an iOS browser in another comment, though I don’t know if it’s good as I’ve never tried it.

          • Nimrod@lemm.ee
            1·
            18 hours ago

            I haven’t tried any other add ons other than ublock, but I can confirm that it works on my iPhone 15 with recent iOS.

            Just try looking at the same recipe page in safari and then again in Orion. Night and day.

      • damdude@lemmy.world
        13·
        18 hours ago

        I’ve been using Brave on iOS - it works fine for me as an alternative to Firefox.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    14·
    1 day ago

    Does it only block the pop-up or does it deny consent for anything but necessary cookies?

    Because that’s quite essential I think

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        In the US, it’s the opposite. The way the law is written, you have to OPT out. So they’re collecting the moment you land.

        I’ve set up a bunch of these cookie banners for US businesses. You can choose if you follow the EU version, or the CCPA version.

        • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          Fortunately my VPN usually exits from Europe. The internet default to being less of a dick this way

          • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
            11·
            13 hours ago

            Wouldn’t really matter for most sites hosted in America. American businesses do not have to comply unless they have EU customers.

            International sites like YouTube absolutely has some system that will switch the cookie tracking depending on geo location, from CCPA to GDPR.

            But American sites don’t really gaf. Small News site in America, unless they’re paying for a fancy Cookie Consent Management tool, is doing it the US way and it’s opt out, regardless of where you’re coming from.

            For example: if Kansas News site gets a warning from the EU about cookies, they’re not going to care. They don’t have the budget, and honestly, easier to just block all IPs from outside the US.

            If you hate this, stop using American products and services. (And I say this as a privacy concerned American)

      • capybara@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        22 hours ago

        If you don’t click any of the options and simply block the pop-up, it commonly breaks the site. Doesn’t matter what’s ethically right, you have to be practical.

          • capybara@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            33 minutes ago

            Countless sites and I’m not keeping track because I visit more than a few sites and not always recurringly. Typically, the page is frozen and I have to disable cookie consent blocker to decline and then be able to use the website. Are you seriously saying you’ve never encountered this?

          • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            Seriously. I see comments like this all the time but no examples.

            Just the idea that a developer would care so much to create something like “If user doesn’t consent, ruin their experience”.