Oh thank god this is gaining traction because I’ve been having these issues for the last years more and more.
This is a real mess, i do this all day long, and in the images website if you see just a little bit of a image in one square you click it or not… Grrrrr 🤬
In europe we have a “reject all” button for cookies and it’s fantastic
We do? Since when? I see that on maybe 1 out of 10 pages.
Be fair, it’s not always working but more often then not IMO.
I’d love somewhere to reporh those assholish designed (so illegal in the EU) ones, like the French CNIL or something?
The consent-o-matic add on allows you to autofil the cookie response and when it doesn’t work you can report it. The ad on is also funded by the EU somehow, can’t remember exactly how. If the add on doesn’t work it means their site is not asking the question correctly.
See I want to be able to set that once, in my browser, and then have all of these things fuck off.
Yep, you can “reject all” if you’re lucky. Then you just have to go through the list anyway and untick all “legitimate interest” to spy on you.
Since I started using a VPN, I’ve started seeing that option more. Even still, lots of sites aren’t compliant.
Except on news websites that only give you the choice between “subscribe for X€” and “read for free (accept all)”. So annoying. Still no idea why that’s legal.
That’s not at all legal under GDPR. Nor is having deny all be harder than accept. As is tradition however companies don’t give half a shit until fines start happening.
Because newspapers are not forced to give out their news for free. But they have to give you an alternative to selling your data; taking money from you in this case.
Which is illegal under GDPR btw. See instagram being sued for „pay or get tracked“ on their app.
Still no idea why that’s legal.
It is not
No, we don’t. I had to do this manually, more than once.
We also have this glorious extension which just fucks them all off:
Or you can enable “Annoyances” filters in uBlock Origin for the same effect
I used to use Ghostery but removed it and now just use these two filters in uBlock. They’re not perfect but certainly better than not using them at all.
Also interesting; I didn’t realise I hadn’t turned those on. thanks!
There seems to be a lot of options. Which ones do I pick? :/
Just turn it all on until something breaks!
I can’t tell: are you joking or serious?
Serious ;)
IIRC that add-on was bought by Avast and the new add-on is ‘I still don’t care about cookies’
Holy fuck, that is so disgusting. I was gonna ask why that’s even legal but I’ve learned not to ask such stupid, logical questions. Thanks for the tip!
thanks, changed it.
To my understanding, by using this you accept (all) the cookies… I would like a extension that tries to minimize cookie exposure!
In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do). It doesn’t delete cookies.
You’re sort of right. Cookie deletion should be available in browser settings right?
In some browsers, such as duck duck go, that’s indeed available and customizable per site. There is also Auto Cookie Delete extension on Firefox and Chrome that you can use.
Ghostery will automatically decline all tracking pop ups, block cookies, website trackers, etc.
I’ve been using it for a while and love it.
Thanks!! Going to try it!
Thanks!! Going to try it!
Use I STILL don’t care about cookies. That one is owned by Avast nowadays and accepts all cookies which is clearly not what people want.
thanks, changed it.
For big websites for sure, but I still need consent-o-matic way too often for smaller sites and news sites. German news sites are particularly terrible.
For ads problem ublock origins / Adguard / Blokada / PiHole does job done especially if you add HAGEZI Ultimate filters on it if you want clean webpage
For captcha problem i think theres script that can you inject to bypass it (i forgot the name of that script)ever wonder why AI is so “good”? please identify all images which are ____. the captcha system may not know what the image is, but after thousands of responses, it has a pretty good idea of where it is, and what it is (since most users will answer correctly to prove they are human).
I just hate the ones that block you for using Linux. User agent spoofers work but they’ll figure out how to block those too someday.
Real reason why people just stay on the same four big-data-harvesting sites now.
There are some sites so extremely annoying that I just get a mirror from archive.org or archive.is. I’m doing this with some news sites that will only allow me to browse them if I accept their cookies.
Recently I started to use reader mode a lot, it tends to work in many cases for this purpose.
At least we have 1000/1000 fiber connections
*cries in 25/1.5mb dsl
How is this a shitpost? It’s just true.
To be fair I havent gotten one of those types of captchas in a while. And now there’s typically a reject all non essential cookies button somewhere.
The thing your missing is, when you click only allow non essential, that means it’s still 700 companies tracking you because of the great term “legitimate interest”. That’s the one you need to deactivate and this usually one by one as shown in this post.
So yeah, you’re essentially allowing all the stuff the way you’re doing it
You will often get these captchas if you use a popular VPN.
I keep getting some stupid drag this puzzle piece, in a straight line, into place. I’ve gotten 1 grid like that and a word captcha in the past 6 months.
I don’t with proton vpn plus at the moment tho I have ublock origgin blocking third party dcripts and noscript blocking most scripts all tpgether on my pc soo half the website that migh show them probably don’t even work
Same (proton and ublocker), but I have also found that some web pages cares what browser you use if you are on proton. If I use chrome then they may just do the verification when you wait 3 seconds but with Firefox and proton (not without proton) do I get a lot of captcha sometimes even after each other just to make triple sure I am not a bot… or even get blocked entirely…
It’s VPN’s that’ll trigger the captchas. I never get them unless I forget to turn my VPN off after “hanging out with my peers”, and then a BUNCH of sites will captcha me
Might be because you trained yourself to avoid those sites that need them. I stopped using some SaaS because logging in was just too hard.
Using a pihole. Is there any way to circumvent the “Ad blocker detected” Prompt that denies access to view site?
Just use ublock origin.
If you use only a pihole there should not popup any adblocker detected messages since you don’t use one.
They most certainly do unfortunately, I speak from experience. Haven’t delved into the specifics, but I suspect some websites check if a piece of JavaScript or other resource was loaded, if not a ‘you are using an adblocker’ message is shown. It is annoying, but as I can live without these websites they go onto my personal blacklist and I move on with my life. They need us harder than we do them.
This is the right answer. Most webpage servers, if they’re set up to detect adblock, only detect at the client level on the browser. They don’t check to see if their traffic is being routed through a pihole.
This is incorrect. Traffic is not ‘routed through a pihole’, it is a DNS resolver which returns a localhost address for blacklisted domains. Basically it causes your browser to try to load blacklisted content from a webserver running on your local PC, which (for the average user) doesn’t exist and so it gives up loading instead.
More and more websites do detect this and it can be as simple as checking for the presence of a variable that should be set if some piece of JavaScript from an external domain was loaded. In such a case it wouldn’t matter if you refused the tracking code due to PiHole or an adblocker extension. Actually the adblocker would even have an advantage here, as it would be capable of manipulating any client-side scripts that trigger these warnings, whereas Pihole has no interaction with your browser at all.
Can confirm that with pihole you still get these. I browse with vanilla chrome on my phone at home and use a pihole, and I get these messages.
Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s
Don’t invent the torment nexus.
Good news! We’ve invented the torment nexus
All I see is a cross in the upper right corner.
There is no such thing as an unintrusive advertisement.
I’d be happy with a static image, hosted by the website which when clicked takes you to the advertiser’s website
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
(recommend not actually clicking any links)
I didn’t mind the static ones (within reason), websites need to pay their rent. And not everything can sell something.
But even those have tracking and gross injection code now.
Even emails have tracking pixels at this point. Like, I route all of my email through a client that blocks all outside media without asking lol
In the long ago if a site needed advertising it was a small banner at the top of the page, and often hosted by the site itself with gasp an actual relationship with the advertisers or sponsors.
The cookies being pre selected is illegal in the EU. Although I’ve seen sites that don’t care and still enable them by default
Here in Spain they started making the option to either subscribe… Or accept the ads/tracking…
Just use reader mode, it bypasses all that shit.
Oh I am sure there are ways to bypass it. Just saying what they do.
Same with a lot of news outlets in Germany. Although it’s not that difficult for me to use only sites that allow disallowing every cookie or just bypass the cookie popup
Same in germany. That makes the whole thing even more useless, as everyone just is a subscription-based shit now…
Yeah I see it seems it applies other places.
I would be ok with it honestly if they like allowed to select sites but they did this “content pass”, https://www.contentpass.net/en , which englobe a lot of sites and lot of them I don’t want them to see a single penny from me because they are shit. If they fix that and I can pick and change it along the way am all in on it.
Italy too.
The ones I’ve seen disable the ‘consent’ bits by default, but then there’s ‘vendor preferences’ where ‘legitimate interest’ is automatically ON in 58 places (I’m not exaggerating; I have counted it) and you have to manually off all of them.
When you click the question mark at ‘legitimate interest’, all it says is some vendors are not asking for your consent to use your data but collect it based on their legitimate interest.
It’s infinitely vague and it has the vibe of ‘I’m not going to ask for it, I will just take it and I will use it for whatever I want anyway’.
Legitimate interest was a concept invented by Facebook which basic is idea is to say “I’ve got my reasons, so it fine for me not to follow the law”.
