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Say "goodbye" to cookies and cookie banners with vanilla Firefox (waveform.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SIGSEGV@waveform.social to c/technology

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For those that don't know, Firefox has in-built support for automatically rejecting cookies and blocking the cookie banners from popping up.

To enable this feature, go to about:config, and perform the following:

change cookiebanners.service.mode from 0 to 2

To have this functionality in Private browsing mode, you should also:

change cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing from 0 to 2.

All Power to the People!

edit: (credit for this information goes to this lemming). Apparently, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button. Mode 1 only hits a Reject All button if available but ignores others.

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I prefer an "accept all" approach, refusing all of them will lead to a degraded experience

Except abusers like Facebook who go in their dedicated isolated container

[–] aes 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I reflexively deny all or as many cookies as I can, and I have never had a site not work; to my knowledge they all work perfectly.

[–] Piers 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

refusing all of them will lead to a degraded experience

In what sense? I find that websites work fine when I deny all and object all. Do you mean in terms of the experience of visiting that site that day being worse depending on the setting or do you mean more in terms of them earning less money leading to a worse experience over the long term?

[–] jadenity 5 points 1 year ago

Most sites don't even give you an option to reject the "functional" cookies. The only degradation of experience you'll get by "rejecting all" (which doesn't reject functional cookies) in most cases would be less relevant ads. Those who are privacy-minded generally prefer "reject all".

[–] deCorp0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

When mentioning data harvesting leviathans, Facebook is definitely on the list, but Google is the undisputed champ of surveillance capitalism. They’ve just got so many people addicted to their “free” services that most don’t want to mention it. I use Firefox mainly because it’s not Chromium based.