• jochem@lemmy.ml
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    It’s bought by Avast. I immediately uninstalled it when I learned about the news. No way that they don’t want get a return on investment by e.g. selling your data.

    Consent-o-matic is better (actually sets the minimum amount of cookies) and is developed by university employees, whom I trust more.

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      Why not just add the I don’t care about cookies list to ublock origin? The list itself is fine. It’s the extension that I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. They can’t collect your data without the extension…

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        11 months ago

        It sometimes breaks sites because it just blocks the dialog, but doesn’t actually answer what the dialog wants to know (i.e. reject all cookies).

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          Technically websites must not track you before you consented to the cookies, but I’m not confident most sites implemented it this way :/

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          11 months ago

          That makes sense. It’s probably an unnecessary list at this point to be honest. Also lmfao at Avast buying that extension. That sucks.

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    IIRC, that doesn’t block cookies, it just blocks cookie warnings.

    I personally use Consent-O-Matic nowdays.

    I don't care about cookies sometimes broke website.

    Never had that issue with Consent-O-Matic which automatically rejects all cookies while still making site usable.

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    11 months ago

    uBlock Origin has filters to block cookie pop-ups. I consider the extension a must anyway, no need to download another one like IDCAC or Consent-o-matic

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      11 months ago

      From https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

      `Cookie extensions

      ❗️Sanitizing in-session is a false sense of privacy. They do nothing for IP tracking. Even Tor Browser does not sanitize in-session e.g. when you request a new circuit. A new ID requires both full sanitizing and a new IP. The same applies to Firefox
      ❗️Cookie extensions can lack APIs or implementation of them to properly sanitize
          e.g. at the time of writing: Cookie Auto Delete` 
      
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t that just accept most cookie banners? Sounds like a horrible idea to me unless you auto clear cookies all the time!