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In ublock origin, go to "Filter lists" (second tabs), check all under: - Cookie notices - Annoyances

Ignoring the popup doesn't consent cookies.

This. The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin. If Google makes good on their threat of disabling adblockers, I'll ditch Chrome immediately. I was a lifelong Firefox user until a few years ago, when I just had to admit that Chrome was significantly better. But without ublock, any advantage it has becomes meaningless.

Better start installing Firefox then. They already removed Ublock Origin from the extension site so you can’t install on new systems anymore. (There’s probably some hoops you can jump through to install it, but the writing is on the wall)

"The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin."

I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).

You should work for Google's legal team. They also love this twisted kind of pedantism.

"Tech bros" and so-called "tech" companies peddling surveillance websites that they call "platforms" would like the public to believe the web is "the internet". This of course is not true.

It's a purely web-centric, and "web browser"-centric, perspective that denies fact: the internet is more than the www.

A tech bro 100% focused on "web apps" and other garbage might claim that anyone citing the fact that "the internet" is more than the web is "a twisted form of pedantism". After all, the web is where the majority of online advertising is found. This is the tech bro "business model" and web-centrism is therefore vigorously defended.

Fortunately the rest of the internet beyond the web (as accessed through popular web browsers that deliver online advertising) is usable without uBlock Origin, although controlling DNS is often essential.

Big Tech with their online advertising "business model" may control "the web". And we can see that has resulted in a sewer of advertising. But the web is only one use of the internet amongst many, many others that are not used to deliver advertising.

I disagree.

Weak bait, but I'll bite.

This consent crap is everywhere. My car asks me *EVERY* time I start it, if it can spy on me. There's no option to accept or deny forever.

Automatically filling in the cookie popup is in my experience more reliable: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. The cookie is saved before you get to click anything so blocking the banner blocks only the annoyance unless you go further than just blocking the banner.

> Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way.

Which sites? Could you name some examples, please?

I'm tracking a few Latvian websites here: https://xn--skdatnes-9ib.lv

The page is generated by a script which visits a list of sites using chromium&selenium, and records what cookies get set on first visit.

The page is in Latvian, but each red cell represents a cookie that was set too early, before obtaining consent.

From the sites I've checked, news portals as a category are the worst offenders.

The script itself is here: https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party

A noble effort, good sir.

Are you taking any actions in the cases where you detect cookies being set by a website without consent?

Yes. In short, I start with a friendly email. If no response, I follow up with a formal, signed complaint. Then if no action, I report to our country's DPA.

In quite a few cases, the friendly email alone does the trick. Sometimes the premature cookies are indeed a bug, and get fixed quickly.

Keep fighting the good fight.

Often websites have cookies popup which covers whole screen. AdBlock is hiding it making interaction and especially scrolling the page difficult.

this helps you, but not the 450M people living in the EU.

I'm an EU citizen, that's helps me and the people I share it with.

Huh? This is perfectly fine in the EU. The reason they have the banners is because they need consent. Removing the banner is totally fine.

exactly, also https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-dont-care-about-c... in combination; seriously, 0 time spent on "cookie" popups

I recommend limiting the number of extension you have. Each extensions is a possible attack vector, the author can get hacked and a malware pushed instead of the extension.

Works for most but not all sites.

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