Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning?

Posted by madmulita on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Has the 'this site uses cookies' saved anyone from anything?

Is there a way to get rid of that stupid message without having to find a button, an X or something and having to click it every single time?

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by pwg on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:27PM (#17294859)

Many of those silly warnings are inserted by Javascript code running on the page.

Installing NoScript and by default blocking all Javascript blocks any of the 'we use cookies' warnings that are inserted by Javascript.

I see very few of those warnings myself (NoScript in default deny all JS mode), beyond the ones that are hard-coded directly into the HTML page.

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by miguelrochefort on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:55PM (#17295924)

But then JavaScript doesn't work...

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by albumdropped on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:28PM (#17295589)

+1 Blocking JS makes the web a much better experience.

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by orcs on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:33PM (#17297710)

This is my experience, so not sure why the downvotes.

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by simon_acca on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:20AM (#17301261)

Yes you can, mostly: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by konradb on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:55PM (#17298428)

This has made the web truly infuriating. It has got a lot worse since the GDPR introduction, it feels like every other site wants to greet you on arrival with some message you just want to bat away.

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by taf2 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:20PM (#17298957)

Browser should just build this in and have it say - you agree to use cookies when browsing the internet so you can answer the question one time for the internet cause... yeah it’s a feature

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by quickthrower2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:25AM (#17301022)

It's not the cookies but how they are used. You need to tell people how they are used. To give them a clear choice in managing their privacy.

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by kevinsimper on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:26PM (#17294846)

You could crowdsource it, or use machine learning to read the screen and look for buttons to click? heh

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Re:Ask HN: Can I kill the 'uses cookies' warning? by chatmasta on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:23PM (#17295521)

Yeah it’s the worst. For reading articles I recommend outline.com and their chrome extension (no special permissions required!) Just click the button on the annoying page and it will generate a reader mode version for you. It also gets around paywalls.

No affiliation, just really like the product. Also hoping they don’t get sued.

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