Block cookie banners on Firefox

Funny, I use the &quot;I still don&#x27;t care about cookies&quot; extension (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OhMyGuus&#x2F;I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OhMyGuus&#x2F;I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies</a>) right now to automatically accept the cookie banners. They&#x27;re literally one of the most annoying things that has happened in the web&#x27;s history

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Given browser headers have existed for a long time, does anyone know why there isn&#x27;t some protocol of your browser saying &quot;give me all the cookies&quot;, &quot;give me only essential cookies&quot; or &quot;give me all cookies except trackibgbones&quot; etc? Instead if tedious and manual banners on every website?<p>I get why companies might not want this (less cookie acceptance) but they didn&#x27;t want cookies to require consent either and the EU enforced that. How come no move to require support for a protocol like this?

Highly recommend the Consent-O-Matic extension to automatically handle cookie prompts, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cavi-au&#x2F;Consent-O-Matic">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cavi-au&#x2F;Consent-O-Matic</a>. One of my favourite extensions.

To show the setting to enable this feature outside of Germany, go to about:config and flip cookiebanners.ui.desktop.enabled. Then a &quot;Cookie Banner Blocker&quot; section should appear in the Firefox settings.<p>It seems like cookiebanners.service.mode=1 might enable it outside of private browsing.

&gt; For example, they might make the Accept All Cookies button prominent, colorful and appealing, while burying the Customize Settings option in small text or a less noticeable location. This design choice can be misleading, effectively nudging users towards accepting all cookies without considering the consequences.<p>Kind of burying the lede there that this isn&#x27;t just annoying, it&#x27;s illegal.

It’s such a convenient outcome that the banners annoy people in to giving &#x2F;explicit&#x2F; consent (every non techie user I’ve observed just click “accept”, oath of least resistance), when before it was a quite a grey area, as I understand it, that you have to wonder if it’s more than just a happy coincidence.

How do they make it work across all websites, since it seems there’s many ad hoc implementations?

Injects fake cookies that tells websites you previously declined to accept cookies, or do a JS-auto-click on the button.<p>Now, how about letting plugins rewrite HTML while it downloads, so we can regex-out EVERYTHING except actual page content?

Any quick patches to apply to the source to enable this in all modes everywhere?:)

This is awesome! Maybe 2024 will be the year of Firefox

This has been working in the DDG browser for me for awhile, nice to see Firefox catch up.

The EU forcing this garbage is one of the worst things to happen to the web.

I honestly don&#x27;t like this idea.<p>I hate cookie banners just like anyone else, and use addons to remove them.<p>But I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s browsers&#x27; job to modify web content based on their discretion, even with good intentions. I especially hate it when a manually crafted list is involved (as said in the article).<p>I think it should be done of 3rd-party addons&#x2F;rules, not the browser vendor.

How can this work &quot;for German users&quot;? Why is this not a &quot;for a Firefox user&quot;? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.

It would be interesting to know the rough amount of cumulative wasted joules on both the computer side and humans doing the extra clicks this cookie banner nonsense adds up to. Unintended consequences of laws.