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.

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    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.

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      How in the world can you have that view when companies literally advertise about doing those dark patterns?

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        They think all corporations good. Anything else scary and bad. Only use apple and Netflix. These are the “normies”.