Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by hutzlibu on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:28PM (#23521922)

I am amazed, at how much that annoyed me, too - and why I never bothered to find out, that ublock origin has this as a hidden feature. Awesome. I just also turned on all of the other annoyance settings. Is there a good chance of real content getting removed, on occasion, or do they work quite good?

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by bashinator on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:12PM (#23523421)

It's pretty easy to make your own, too. I use the element zapper and picker to block Reddit's incessant demands that I use "new" reddit and get a "premium" membership. I also use it to block Facebook's "trending" bullshit.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by naravara on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:20PM (#23523454)

Either an element zapper or a one click sticky-header killer should honestly be standard issue features in browsers nowadays. The web would be a miserable without them, especially on mobile.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by bashinator on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:12AM (#23525376)

I'm just concerned that's inviting an arms race where unwelcome page elements get randomized CSS namespaces. Fuck that noise.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by chmod775 on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:46AM (#23525565)

In that case we could just match by the CSS rules' content - i.e. match all elements that have style X, Y, Z applied to them. That kind of arms race would be over real quick.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by dmurray on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:14AM (#23526490)

The arms race is that the next time you come back to the page, the offending element has a slightly different style (randomized CSS class name, RGB values changed by 1, font size changed by 0.1...) and your browser doesn't recognise it as being the right element to block.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by chmod775 on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:59AM (#23526812)

Match by ranges so changing values by 1 doesn't work. At the end of the day a human would have to come up with an entirely alternative style for the page to defeat your filters.

Pretty much any machine generated variations can also be defeated automatically by a machine. If defeating your filters takes a lot of work, and only helps until a few days later you update your filters in a few minutes, nobody is gonna bother.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by dredmorbius on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:26AM (#23526574)

Whitelist, not blacklist.

Which whould break CSS minifiers, but that's the point.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by janitor61 on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:36PM (#23529274)

That's already the case with sites like Twitter. In order to remove the trending pane in uBO, I had to rely on a11y attributes:

##div[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by FroshKiller on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:01AM (#23526418)

I hate to tell you this, but we're already there.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by literallycancer on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:20AM (#23526157)

You can have filters that look at parent or child elements of the randomized element or other patterns.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by dorgo on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:32AM (#23538355)

And random structure to break nth-child selectors.

Even better: draw everything in a canvas.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by hydroxonium on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:46AM (#23523880)

One-click sticky-header killer via JavaScript bookmarklet

https://medium.com/@jacob.tan.en/floating-elements-on-web-pa...

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by alpaca128 on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:15AM (#23524674)

I activated all the options in uBlock Origin a couple months ago and didn't miss anything so far. Of course when I visit a new site it's hard to know, but the few times where a site was obviously missing some content it turned out to be broken in general.

So I would say the filter works pretty well, I didn't get a single popup of any sort ever since.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by zamadatix on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:11PM (#23522230)

I have had all list except the extra languages lists enabled for a couple years now. Online fast food ordering sites (e.g. Chipotle) are the only ones I've noticed get broken.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by darekkay on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:34AM (#23525167)

> Is there a good chance of real content getting removed, on occasion, or do they work quite good?

Yes, I sometimes get some real content removed. If something looks strange, I temporarly deactivate uBlock. Last time it was a GDPR checkbox at a store checkout.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by gpderetta on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:08AM (#23525713)

Normally I disable ublock if I'm actually buying something from a website exactly for these sort of issues.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by DavideNL on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:09AM (#23527476)

Or just use a different browser/Firefox-profile which still has uBlock Origin installed but with only the default filter lists...

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