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Ask HN: How do we stop the cookie dialogs?

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I can’t be the only one who finds the cookie consent dialogs rediculous. Has anything good come from them? I find them as annoying as pop up ads were back in the day. So my question is, how can we stop this? I’m not talking about browser plugins, I want to get rid of these things for everyone.

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There's an extension that will do it. Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-... Firefox, (I use this in Waterfox as well,) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

We stop them when we no longer needs cookies and the market demands privacy-respecting services.

I personally stopped visiting a lot of sites that have them. For example, I no longer even consider clicking on Tumblr links or anything by the cancer company called "Oath" (ex Yahoo).

When enough people do this there will be a business incentive for less cookies & tracking.

I use an a blocker and create rules for them. I know it's futile but I get some pleasure by blocking the dialog rather than responding to it in the manner they're demanding. I only really visit a few sites very often so it's not a problem for me to do this.

They’re not going anywhere unless and until case law or changes in law make it clear that they’re not necessary for GDPR (and similar statute) compliance.

Petition your EU lawmakers.

...but what if I don't want the popups or the ubiquitous surveillance?

Petition your EU lawmakers and make your browser reject cookies from all sites that are not on your whitelist.

I used to do that and it worked pretty well, but now it's impossible thanks to those dialogs. Blocking third party cookies still works, since it only breaks a small portion of the websites I visit.

Blocking cookies won't really stop the surveillance by the way. It stops only one way of tracking you.

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