A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with “848 of our partners” and “actively scan device details for identification”.

  • @[email protected]
    36•3 months ago

    The most effective solution is just to wipe all cookies every time you close your browser, or creating strict cookie whitelists. Actually managing cookies on webpages is for normies.

      • @ngwooEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        The only way for the site to know to not show the pop-up again is ironically by saving that information in a cookie

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
          3•3 months ago

          Or you could block all cookies from all associated domains and use uBlock Origin element picker to hide the popup.

          I’m tired of expecting service and site owners to be human beings, and have learned the tools needed to curate my own experience. Hell I used to browse with javascript off for years until every shitbag UI graduate decided to cram it into every single site regardless of applicability.

      • @Buddahriffic
        1•3 months ago

        I like grid for that because it’s by default per-site permissions and also by default allows the sites own cookies while blocking any cookies for other domains.

        It can involve some trial and error to get things working if the site uses a CDN or third party services for functionality, but I’ve found that it hasn’t yet been necessary to enable any 3rd party cookies to get any functionality working (at least none that I wanted to get working, maybe other sites that use Google or fb accounts would automatically log me in if I had those ones enabled, but those are things I specifically want to block).

        Usually I’ll just need to enable some scripts and media from CDNs.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
          2•3 months ago

          I hate nearly everything about web 2.0, if I could thanos snap away Javascript and CSS I would it with zero remorse or regret. Humanity was happier before CDNs.

    • @[email protected]
      6•3 months ago

      and then every time you visit that one good news site, you have to go through their cookie banner each time. That or install a cookie-denying addon and hope that they don’t sellout or sell your data.

      • @davidagain
        5•3 months ago

        You have a total of four choices:

        1a. Wipe all their cookies every time, reject them every time they ask.
        1b. Wipe all their cookies every time, accept them every time they ask. 2a. Don’t wipe cookies, keep the “essential” ones. 2b. Don’t wipe cookies, accept all our most of them.

        2b is the only scenario where you might not get asked again. 1b is the easiest no thanks.

        I use the duck duck go browser because it makes that the default and offers to whitelist sites for cookies if you log into them (but you can turn that off in settings). It also autorejects a lot of cookies that use common popups.

        • @[email protected]
          5•3 months ago

          2a seems the most rational, no?

          Also maybe switch to mullvad-browser instead of DDG browser, since DDG has some controversies (search: “Zach Edwards” on the wiki) on what data it saves.

          • @davidagain
            2•3 months ago

            Thank you. Where can I find the wiki?

            Edit: Wired says

            DuckDuckGo Created a Privacy Exception for Microsoft Cybersecurity and privacy researcher Zach Edwards discovered a glaring hole in the privacy protections of DuckDuckGo’s purportedly privacy-focused browser: By examining the browser’s data flows on Facebook-owned website Workplace.com, Edwards found that the site’s Microsoft-placed tracking scripts continued to communicate back to Microsoft-owned domains like Bing and LinkedIn. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg responded to Edwards on Twitter, admitting that “our search syndication agreement prevents us from stopping Microsoft-owned scripts from loading”—essentially admitting that a partnership deal DuckDuckGo struck with Microsoft includes creating a carveout that lets Microsoft track users of its browsers. Weinberg added that DuckDuckGo is “working to change that.” (A company spokesperson reiterated in an email to WIRED Weinberg’s assertion that none of this applies to DuckDuckGo search, adding that both its search and its browser offer more privacy protections than the competition.) In the meantime, the revelation blew a glaring hole of its own in the company’s reputation as a rare privacy-preserving tech firm. Turns out this surveillance capitalism thing is pretty hard to escape.

    • @[email protected]
      3•3 months ago

      Sadly that is not an option for firefox on android yet (while it is on desktop), the only choises you are left with are:

      • Use ff focus that completely resets the browser deleting every cookie in the process
      • Use normal ff and:
      1. Just accept that you have to deal with cookies and care to carefully select Reject on every banner
      2. Turn on delete data on “exit button press” (which sadly deletes everything again, with no possibility to whitelist some websites).

      That said, i believe Firefox should have (even on android) their “total cookie protection” thing which puts them in separate containers for each domain, so you are somewhat protected by cookie cross-tracking, but i would still prefer to delete most of them at close.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)OP
        2•3 months ago

        Having seem the inside of some of these trackers, I can assure you that cross-domain “protection” is a furphy. Also, 848 partners is small fries. For shits and giggles you should turn on network logging on Firefox or Chrome and open any modern news website.

        • @[email protected]
          2•3 months ago

          Yea, 😂, I was very shocked on the amount of server contacted when I first time installed a pi-hole and opened a local news page while being on piHole webUI to test if it works.

      • @sunbytes
        1•3 months ago

        Ghostery has an “auto-reject cookies” setting.