You Should Know @lemmy.world irelephant [he/him]🍭 @lemm.ee 4d ago

YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.

On ublock origin (full version, not lite), click on the settings icon:

Then go to "Filter Lists" and enable both of the "Cookie Notices" options:

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Ublock is truly one of the 8 technological Wonders of the world.
- Every time I accidentally open another browser, I puke a little bit. I wonder how is it possible to live without uBlock Origin.
- What are the other 7?
  
  Linux Kernel. Blender. And the other 5 are still undiscovered.
  
  Firefox, since it's the last truly good non-google-controlled browser, I think. And it didn't just actively try to destroy ublock origin and other ad blocking plugins.
get the consent-o-matic plugin as well. it automaticly denies concent on most mainstream sites. you can even set the level.
Bonus tip, you can install extensions on Firefox mobile and block those pesky ads too
- Only on Android unfortuantely. On iOS, Firefox is just a skin for Safari with no plugin support (thanks Apple!).
  
  On iOS
  
  See, that's where you went wrong.
  
  Edit : Orion has been suggested as an iOS browser in another comment, though I don't know if it's good as I've never tried it.
  
  Safari has plugins! Get “Wipr 2”, it blocks ads, cookie banners, autoplaying videos, and all that garbage!
  
  I've been using Brave on iOS - it works fine for me as an alternative to Firefox.
I occasionally do searches to see if there's a blocker for those obnoxious, "Do you want to use the app?" lightboxes. To no avail. 😿
- AdGuard has a filter list for Mobile App Banners.
- You can make your own filters. Press the zap button to temporarily block something (to test) and the eyedropper to permenantly make a filter.
  
  I try that in uBlock from time to time, but I still can't seem to get it quite right. Testing in Duolingo right now, I set it to get rid of the app popup, as well as the semitransparent overlay that darkens the whole page. But there's still some element on the page that restricts me from scrolling until I tap on the page. It's an improvement, but still not quite there yet.
  
  I just imported it, and still have to tap before I can swipe. I also checked eBay after importing, and that app banner still pops up.
- Ublock Origin also has a section called annoyances, some of those lists probably block them.
  
  I've already gone through and toggled on virtually all of the filter lists.
- Is "lightbox" another word for "modal"?
  
  I had to look up 'html modal', yeah it sounds like the same thing. I learned web dev back in the xhtml days. Back then those kinds of boxes were only beginning to see popular usage, and there was no official tag for making them.
I switched to AdNauseam and can't tell any difference. And apparently AdNauseam actively is a hindrance to the ads instead of merely blocking them. Can anyone elaborate?
- Kinda depends on your perspective. It costs advertisers money and pays the website you're visiting. If it's a shitty site with a lot of ads, you're effectively encouraging them putting in more ads. Since you're "clicking" on every ad, and it's not affecting your experience, it sends a message that stuffing the page with all those ads is good for revenue. It also just charges advertisers. I don't personally think running ads inherently makes a company bad, so in my opinion clicking on ads out of spite so they get charged for a useless click is kind of not a great solution imho. It seems like it kinda benefits the wrong people, unless you're exclusively going to great websites running ads for terrible companies.
  
  It only clicks tracking ads to feed them garbage data and leaves ethical ads alone.
- That's basically it, it just creates a ton of traffic from your system by clicking on every ad as it blocks them.
  
  The idea being you 'hide in the noise' essentially. I'm not sure how well that works though.
  
  Well so far it blocks everything just as good as ublock as far as I can tell. So if there is even a chance I'm fucking with the advertisers, I'm sticking with it.
Is there anything for all the "subscribe to newsletter" popups on news sites and online stores?
- Yes, those should be included under "Annoyances"
  
  I turned basically all of the optional filters on a few days ago at the advice of another lemming and I did not even realise until now that the internet had gotten noticeably less annoying.
Or use I still don't care about cookies
- Ublock has been slightly better in my experience, and this doesn't require another extension.
  
  Thanks for sharing though!
  
  uBO is way better, especially if you also know how to make filters yourself.
  
  https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/ you could add this to uBlock filters
- I'd like to throw consent-o-matic in as someone else suggested under one of my comments a while back :)
  
  https://lemmy.hogru.ch/comment/1412645
DandelionSprout also has a fantastic collection of lists that i use regularly. https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt
On mobile you can use Consent-o-matic
- You can use uBO on firefox on android.
  
  You can use uBO on iOS now too. The Kagi search engine people have made a mobile browser (Orion) that supports Firefox and Chrome plugins!
  
  My web browsing experience has drastically improved since I was finally able to get uBO back since my switch away from Android.
  
  I use both😈
  
  (And both on pc and android:)

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