If you go to uBlock Origin’s settings and then select ‘Filter lists’, there’s a list maintained by EasyList and another by AdGuard that both block cookie notices. To my understanding, this isn’t enabled by default (at least it wasn’t when I installed uBO).
Apologies if this is common knowledge; I didn’t know about it until recently.
Why YSK: Cookie consent pop-ups are annoyances full of dark patterns designed to frustrate you into affirmatively opting into superfluous data collection and letting companies profit off your information. Saving just a few seconds on pages you browse adds up, and this is especially true if you use something like Cookie AutoDelete that makes your answers to these pop-ups transient.
In the annoyances you can block the log in with Google/Facebook too
Blocking accounts.google.com and facebook.com (you can unblock them on google/facebook if you actually use google/facebook) (in the “advanced mode” view that tells you what third party domains are on a page) gets rid of those, too!
(or maybe it was a different facebook domain, I dunno, we just block everything facebook on sight)
If only my friends believed me that dark patterns were real.
I’m the paranoid crazy one because I say to get the hell off fb and x.
How in the world can you have that view when companies literally advertise about doing those dark patterns?
They think all corporations good. Anything else scary and bad. Only use apple and Netflix. These are the “normies”.
There’s also the Consent-O-Matic browser extension to automatically decline cookies
I disabled it, I don’t remember what was the issue, I’ll have a try again, thanks for the reminder
I find it works 90% of the time. Which makes the 10% it doesn’t work annoying because I’m not used to declining cookies anymore 😅
