Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Consent-o-matic is your friend π
Been using it for a long time. In my experience it covers maybe 30 or 40% of sites only.
I still don't care about cookies seems to work for the rest for me!
The issue about that extension is how it handles consent.
In most cases, the add-on 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
You should be aware that it will often just accept all cookies, because that is easier.
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I'll have to give this a shot. Thanks for the link!
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Today i had a new one:
[ Accept ]
Or
[ Pay to Reject ]
That's when you choose option 3:
[Close tab]
Gdpr seemed like it was designed to ban this, but lately companies (especially German ones?) seem to be trying this. I guess it won't be resolved without a big, slow, expensive court case.
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I keep seeing this a lot lately. I also saw one that had the style from the image (accept all or refuse maybe), but if you hit refuse, a second one popped up that said:
[pay to read]
Or
[read for free]
I opened it in private mode and read for free just let me into the article. Iβm guessing it accepts all.
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I need to verify this, but I vaguely remembered youβre supposed to be able to exit these safely in two clicks maximum, though they sometimes obscure it.
Usually, itβs something like βCustomizeβ then βSaveβ without checking anything, or just βReject Allβ.
it's even more straight forward than that; accepting and rejecting has to be the same number of steps.
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Correct. But companies seem to not give two fricks about it. There should be harsher punishments in place.
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Unlock origin and you wonβt see a cookie message ever again.
Ublock origin, but yes.
No. Uclock Origin.
Is that the plugin that blocks the increasingly unfunny clock memes in c/ProgrammerHumor?
Hehe, naughty keyboard attacks again :)
Is that something you have to enable? I've used ublock for years but I still get cookie popups
Yes. Settings > Filter Lists > Annoyances
settings, filter list and cookie notices. select both lists there.
~~Accept all~~ Block all
And then the companies get all uwu but adblocking is stealing and damages our revenue! π
"Save preferences"? Save them where exactly?
In the strictly necessary cookies that you can't turn off you silly billy
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Install "I still don't care about cookies" on Firefox based browsers.
Cookies are declined immediately and the banners closed. Works most of the time unless it's a custom non-standard cookie prompt implementation.
You're welcome.
It dosn't delete cookies. I use 'Cookie Autodelete' for that togehter with 'I still don't care about cookies', which is the community version of 'I don't care about cookies'. It is much better at removing the Popups.
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The part that annoys me is that I have Do Not Track enabled in my browser and there's one (1) website I use that respects this choice, as intended by GDPR. (geizhals.de)
All others choose to bother me about their stupid ad tracking.
The Do Not Track header has been discontinued by most browsers. It's the sad state of affairs.
In an ideal world, all websites shouldn't even show a cookie alert if you have that header on.
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"No, I don't want ads. No, I don't want cookies. No, I don't want to even be asked about cookies, or subscribing to your newsletter, or to sign up for access to this article. Fuck off."
Malicious compliance writ large.
Also, the number of hurdles you have to clear for this tells volumes about where the site owner priorities lie.
Hence why the EU is now forcing an "easy way to decline". All compliant websites have a "reject all cookies" button now.
Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.
I'm pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they're starting to crack down on it now
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i just disabled cookie persistence in my browsers.
now it doesn't matter if i click accept all or not
It does, the GDPR does not talk about cookies but tracking consent. Cookies are one of the tools for tracking.
Also disabling cookie persistence does nothing against in session tracking.
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I think people really misunderstand cookies and have been lead to get angry at exactly the wrong things which actually give the biggest companies huge advantages so they're fine with all of this mumbojumbo.
When you cant have local cookies, or there are hoops, companies that need not bother with this because they own your browser (Google) or companies that own major search engines (Google) or companies that most other companies rely on for ads or social media integration etc (Google) are tremendously advantaged.
Now, basically only Google can collect a wholistic profile of a user, while regular websites must now waste extra man power implementing completely useless cookie preferences when in reality this should have been simplified, at worst, to 3 buttons.
All, No Marketting, No Telemetry.
Anything else is just the user wasting their time or destroying the functionality of a website for no reason/requiring busy body work to comply with ill conceived regulations.
With the downfall of third party cookies in most browsers, cookies literally just serve as some temporary storage for websites on your local machine. Cookies existing or not existing arent what control whether you are tracked, especially given all the fancy fingerprinting that goes on nowadays.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Also available for other browsers.
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Block all 3rd party cookies by default. Done.
ublock has filter lists for these things. Doesn't always work but helps a lot.
the nice part is that if you don't ever respond to the popup, they are not allowed to presume you accepted
Block. According to the GDPR consent has to be explicit, so never pressing "Accept" is surprisingly a valid tactic.
Enforcement, however, is a different story.
And when I finally lose my shit and just press "accept all" and "save my preferences for an eternity along with all my private information", it still pops up every single time!
And then you have to hope they honor your choice.
Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Custom -> All cookies (will cause websites to break)
Open site -> it breaks -> do i really need it? (no) Move on to the next site. (yes) Ctrl+I -> Permissions -> Set Cookies - uncheck "Use Default" - Allow
Why oh why didn't the lawmakers add an obligation to use a standardized cookies selection popup.
I remember day one of it coming into effect and it was already obvious this was a necessity.
Lobbying. One of those laws pretending to do the right thing but sabotaged.
Or maybe its even worse than that.
Before you could just have the cookies deleted. But if you do that now you get the awful popup every time, so you just accept them in the end.
I know I do.
This law has made me accept cookies spying.
That's already part of the GDPR, companies just aren't complying with it.
From the official GDPR site:
To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
- Receive usersβ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.
- Provide accurate and specific information about the data each cookie tracks and its purpose in plain language before consent is received.
- Document and store consent received from users.
- Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies
- Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
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I will on rare occasions accept all if the site gives me the option to reject all but necessary.
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