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.

  • ‹Hexa«Back›@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    from what I know, they’re only meant to be used as a last resort if a website in a certain language still loads ads. those filters do a blanket ban on a lot of addresses, so they break many sites if you get girlbossy and enable them all