Deinstalled. Very sad because this this extension made my life better. Any open source (FLOSS) alternative?
The problem with consent pop-ups isn't the European law; it's the failure to properly enforce it.
These days for privacy with Firefox you really don't need anything else. There are a few others that may have something to offer https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions for specific purposes.
This was an extension for people who don’t care about privacy.
So I went for a solution that makes browsing less annoying, whithout storing many cookies:
- Have this add on accept all cookies - Block third party cookies - Delete cookies from websites as soon as I close a tab
I (and you) don't know if many users of this add on do something similar, but it is what's recommended on the website
> Please educate yourself about cookie related privacy issues and ways to protect yourself and your data. For example, you can block 3rd party cookies, install ad blocking extensions and then block tracking tools, delete browsing data regularly, enable Tracking Protection in your browser etc.
And besides that, I think it's really naive to assume you've got any influence on tracking that sites do on their site. With cookies I know I can choose to save them on my machine or not. If a website uses the fingerprint of my computer to identify me, they'll almost certainly keep doing that after I've rejected their cookies.
Consent-o-matic is the extension that people use that do care about tracking (or believe that most companies will mostly follow the law, I guess).
Don't do this, it doesn't work the way you think, but in fact makes your browser easier to fingerprint. Very few people use that extension.
I think using uBlock etc is more likely to result in preventing tracking through blocking known urls and code etc compared to hiding consent forms... I know it's far from infallible but currently most trackers don't bother going to extremes if you block them.
In fact, that already happened, and that’s why it’s called uBlock Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uBlock_Origin
> The uBlock project official repository was transferred to Chris Aljoudi by original developer Raymond Hill in April 2015, due to frustration of dealing with requests. However, Hill immediately self-forked it and continued the effort there. This version was later renamed uBlock Origin and it has been completely divorced from Aljoudi's uBlock. Aljoudi created ublock.org to host and promote uBlock and to request donations. In response, uBlock's founder Raymond Hill stated that "the donations sought by ublock.org are not benefiting any of those who contributed most to create uBlock Origin.” The development of uBlock stopped in August 2015 and it has been sporadically updated since January 2017. In July 2018, ublock.org was acquired by AdBlock, and since February 2019, uBlock began allowing "Acceptable Ads", a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptable", and for which the larger publishers pay a fee. uBlock Origin remains independent and does not allow ads for payment.