Nice, I used “I don’t care about cookies” for a while which just accepted or hid the pop-up and then blocked tracking locally. They got bought out by some corpo tho so I stopped using them.
Does that actually block “legitimate” cookies too? Because many of the pop ups are now set up in a way that “reject all” doesn’t reject those, and I honestly don’t trust that the extension is doing anything beyond “clicking” “reject all” on your behalf, meaning the hundreds of “legitimate” cookies will still get through.
Using picture in picture mode you can watch it do it’s thing.
Fair enough. Still sounds like more trouble than it’s worth (having to look at it do it’s thing each time, because each site has its own version, and they also change them regularly. Yes, I have trust issues), there’s rarely anything behind the worst cookie pop ups that can’t be found elsewhere.
I appreciate the info though, thanks. If things get bad enough I might not have a choice but to at least automate the process if I can no longer avoid it.
It’s a valid question and if it wasn’t both open-source and popular the doubt would be very justified. Here with so many eyes interested in the topic, the lack of proper reward for the risk, I would argue it’s quite a safe bet.
I don’t know how to read code (like what I would wager is most of the population), so that wouldn’t help much, and is another reason for doubt.
Knowing that it’s open source definitely helps, but I still worry that the pop ups get updated at a faster rate than the extension does, and unlike with an adblocker, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell.
As I said, I’ll keep it in mind, but at this point avoiding the worst offending sites is still easier (with added bonus that I deprive them of my traffic).
Unfortunately I don’t think this code has been audited by a third party. That being said if there is not an uproar in issues in the repository or a popular fork overtaking it or a bunch of terrible online reviews, I would assume it’s relatively safe. It’s challenging to have a backdoor or scam or just bad practices with so many eyes on the source code. It’s not impossible of course but it’s rare, especially when it’s something optional, the risk is very high.
Regarding pop-ups I’m not sure I understand. A lot of cookie banners use the same (sadly due to the concentration) services so I believe by supporting only a handful a lot of the Web can be covered. If he plugin doesn’t support it, it just does nothing, letting the user decide as they normally would. The rules themselves are also public and can be checked.
Anyway nobody “needs” this so it’s fine not using it. It makes me wonder though in practice how it changes behavior, e.g do I sometimes click “allow” or “yes” because I’m just tired, and think “whatever, right now I don’t have time for this, I just want the damn information” and if so, does this plugin, assuming it doesn’t fail, genuinely help, or not.
Consent-o-matic for the win.
nice, thanks
will use this one, as the “i dont care about cookies” extension seems to cease to work nowadays
From memory I don’t care accepts all cookies where consent-o-matic will actively opt out of them.
I think just for desktop at the moment unfortunately
Nice, I used “I don’t care about cookies” for a while which just accepted or hid the pop-up and then blocked tracking locally. They got bought out by some corpo tho so I stopped using them.
There’s a maintained fork: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
Ohh its available for android. Nice!
Does that actually block “legitimate” cookies too? Because many of the pop ups are now set up in a way that “reject all” doesn’t reject those, and I honestly don’t trust that the extension is doing anything beyond “clicking” “reject all” on your behalf, meaning the hundreds of “legitimate” cookies will still get through.
If the plugin knows about it then it can handle it.
But how do I know that it does?
By watching it.
There are 2 operating modes. Hide and picture in picture. Using picture in picture mode you can watch it do it’s thing.
Fair enough. Still sounds like more trouble than it’s worth (having to look at it do it’s thing each time, because each site has its own version, and they also change them regularly. Yes, I have trust issues), there’s rarely anything behind the worst cookie pop ups that can’t be found elsewhere.
I appreciate the info though, thanks. If things get bad enough I might not have a choice but to at least automate the process if I can no longer avoid it.
Read the code https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic ? Check the cookie after it has been set?
It’s a valid question and if it wasn’t both open-source and popular the doubt would be very justified. Here with so many eyes interested in the topic, the lack of proper reward for the risk, I would argue it’s quite a safe bet.
I don’t know how to read code (like what I would wager is most of the population), so that wouldn’t help much, and is another reason for doubt.
Knowing that it’s open source definitely helps, but I still worry that the pop ups get updated at a faster rate than the extension does, and unlike with an adblocker, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell.
As I said, I’ll keep it in mind, but at this point avoiding the worst offending sites is still easier (with added bonus that I deprive them of my traffic).
Unfortunately I don’t think this code has been audited by a third party. That being said if there is not an uproar in issues in the repository or a popular fork overtaking it or a bunch of terrible online reviews, I would assume it’s relatively safe. It’s challenging to have a backdoor or scam or just bad practices with so many eyes on the source code. It’s not impossible of course but it’s rare, especially when it’s something optional, the risk is very high.
Regarding pop-ups I’m not sure I understand. A lot of cookie banners use the same (sadly due to the concentration) services so I believe by supporting only a handful a lot of the Web can be covered. If he plugin doesn’t support it, it just does nothing, letting the user decide as they normally would. The rules themselves are also public and can be checked.
Anyway nobody “needs” this so it’s fine not using it. It makes me wonder though in practice how it changes behavior, e.g do I sometimes click “allow” or “yes” because I’m just tired, and think “whatever, right now I don’t have time for this, I just want the damn information” and if so, does this plugin, assuming it doesn’t fail, genuinely help, or not.