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.
Careful, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button. So use that only if cookies are disabled or otherwise controlled, for example by an AddOn like Cookie AutoDelete. If not, rather use mode 1 that hits only a Reject All button if available but ignores others.
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.
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So, firefox achieving feature parity with lynx? :^)
CLI is king ;-)
Oh boy this is great for privacy but it’s also going to break a lot of academic shit that relies on cookies for authentication
I don’t think this blocks all cookies, but instead disables all non-essential cookies in those cookie consent dialogs
or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
It’s good but nowhere near as good as I-Dont-Like-Cookies was. Shame that guy sold out. Consent-O-Matic still seems to miss a lot of consent screens.
There is a community version called “I still don’t care about cookies” https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
Ah that’s a much better choice than just blanket blocking all cookies
Does “Reject All” also object to legitimate interest?
According to Mozilla setting both to the value 1 is the better idea. The fallback then won’t be “Accept all”.
This isn’t anything new. Firefox lost the lead ages ago (thanks, Mozilla):
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices/
a chrome reskin, cryptominer and the CEO’s an anti-LGBT fascist. no thanks.
The cryptominer part is just FUD. Learn how it works. And the browser itself is way more private then FF by default.
The CEO was one also of the cofounders of Mozilla. How ironic.
Also, the actual CEO of Mozilla is doing a great job… At increasing her paycheck while firing developers:
https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-execs-salary-up-400/2050/
Mozilla is one of the most corrupt orgs out there, right now.
Really? Compared to google, the banks, etc? You say they’re one of the worst?
dude’s a Brave shill. ignore, block and move on.
Careful, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button. So use that only if cookies are disabled or otherwise controlled, for example by an AddOn like Cookie AutoDelete. If not, rather use mode 1 that hits only a Reject All button if available but ignores others.
See https://community.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/ and https://github.com/mozilla/cookie-banner-rules-list
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
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.