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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

I would love an option that allows me to set defaults for all websites that I visit. Such as to reject marketing and tracking cookies and other mechanisms used for that purpose globally and to allow me to fine tune functional stuff on a per-site basis.

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Mozilla has this for Firefox

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/24/configure-firefox-to-rejec...

Of course that page just had to pop up a modal consent banner first...

I use "I still don't care about cookies": https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

Rejects/Hides/Accepts depending on the situation. Not ideal, but hides a lot of these messages.

I use Consent-O-Matic. You can configure how it should behave. By default it'll reject things. For the websites it doesn't support I often use reader mode.

You can also use the Anoyances filter in uBlock Origin to hide all cookie banners.

Looking now I already have 7/7 Annoyances lists enabled, what filter do you mean exactly?

Lol. The consent popup on this site is nearly identical to the "dark pattern" example in the Cloudflare Zaraz blog post. No reject all option. You have to click learn more to customize to deny cookies.

Why didn't the cookie consent laws just say that "DNT: 1" counts as denying consent for all unnecessary cookies?

Cookie consent banners as we know them were constructed by the IAB as a framework made of dark patterns to annoy people into allowing adtech cookies. The idea was to be as annoying as they could get away with, so that end users would blame the GDPR. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7epda/its-bad-design-on-pur...

I for one are hesitant to click on any new website because I expect yet another cookie consent banner.

So cookie consent increased the hurdles users face to explore the real web.

So the real winners are the dominant websites and apps.

Because DNT barely existed when ePrivacy was last amended, back in 2009.

The extension Consent o Matic do that (Firefox/Chrome/Safari) https://consentomatic.au.dk/

It's quite good! When it doesn't work, there's a 50% chance (or more) that the banner doesn't allow you to reject the cookies without payment, which somehow is actually legal.

This should've been a browser option since the beginning.

Brave blocks consent pop-ups automatically, basically a reject all for cookies.

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