Consent-O-Matic is an extension for dealing with cookies pop-ups, it will automatically disable all cookies and close the pop-up. In other words, it will only agree to the essential cookies or the cookies that you can’t disable, anything else will disable it. It has a good feature too where you can…

I’m going to mark this suggestion as rejected, because Brave is implementing this feature natively soon, and for other browsers even though we don’t necessarily recommend enabling extra uBlock Origin lists, doing so is still safer than installing an additional full extension. Although in that case I…

I really like the comparison of the different approaches in that page by Brave. Specifically this part: One approach (which Brave uses) is to block cookie banners, and to hide and to modify pages to remove any additional annoyance such systems include (such as overlays, preventing scrolling, etc.)…

Also worth noting for people using Firefox, you can use uBlock Origin and activate the “EasyList Cookie” filter and it should block cookie banners too.

This is also a thing on Adguard for iOS, although it’s worth noting that for some sites the scroll will be locked, unless you give adguard privileged access to the page. Otherwise adguard can only use the (trustless) content blocking API which can be limited sometimes.

Thank you for your comment. I do let the cookies banner alone as you said, and when the banner block browsing, I hide it using browser’s inspector. And I clear the cookies when I close the browser (automatically). I found that extension is interesting on how it handles the pop-ups and I used it fo…

Since some here implied something like “just block/delete cookies in your browser and it doesn’t matter what you click on the banner”: Cookie banners are legally also responsible for other forms of tracking, not just cookies. For example server-site, fingerprinting or cookie-like mechanisms.

I would personally prefer to stick to defenses that I can verify, such as ensuring that I’m blocking third-party cookies, that I’m clearing everything when I close the browser, as well as using a browser that has at least some basic fingerprinting protections, such as Brave. At the end of the day, …

So what’s the better approach - Consent-O-Matic or enabling the “Cookie Notices” filters in uBlock Origin? I thought that theoretically you should stick to the default filter lists because otherwise you can be fingerprinted more easily?

I think @jonah initially misunderstood how this extension functions (as did I until recently). It is NOT comparable to the approach or goals of the uBO/Brave technique. I initially dismissed this extension because I mistakenly assumed that it works like other cookie consent popup blocking methods,…

If you’re just going to isolate and then soon after delete your cookies, is there any real benefit to rejecting the ones websites offer to let you reject? The whole notion of relying on the website we visit to enact our choices about cookies seems backwards to me. Our web browser lets us delete and…

I have used Consent-O-Matic for a few weeks now on Firefox Desktop + Android. It’s quite nice. For about 90% of cookie dialogues it solves them automatically - there’s a tiny picture-in-picture that pops up where you can see how Consent-O-Matic is automatically solving (rejecting if possible) the co…

Automatically deal with cookies pop-ups using Consent-O-Matic extension

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xe3 (xe3) February 5, 2024, 11:08am 17

Forgetful browsing helps but is still an imperfect solution on its own (and it comes with a substantial usability tradeoff, one that I am okay with, but most people are not. And is insufficient on its own with respect to first party tracking. Taking advantage of legal frameworks like GDPR, can at best substantively imrpove your privacy, providing an additional layer of protection in addition to the technical solutons.

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