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rpdillontoday at 3:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

The insanity around cookie banners is a good target.

> Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner.

Fortunately, if you have uBlock Origin, you can enable Easylist cookie notices under annoyances and avoid most of them. Combine with blocking third-party cookies, and the problem pretty much disappears.

The fact that the EU tried to regulate this stuff is a shame, because regulation is not a good remedy. End-users have agency here. The solution is to enable end-users to have control in their browser (which they always did, so it's an issue of education, like so many things).

Shame that Google is trying to kill uBO though. Extremely pleased that Brave continues to support it.


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mrkeentoday at 3:29 PM

If it's not cookies, it will be something else. IP addresses, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting.

The Do Not Track header is the only technology needed. The rest is compelling companies to obey it.

cwnythtoday at 3:50 PM

Didn't know that about Brave, but it's moot for me since Firefox also supports it and these days I find that Firefox is the better experience, not Chrome or even Chromium.