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Re:Firefox 81.0 by worble on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:39PM (#24559612)
uBlocks "Annoyances" list should cover a lot of cookie and GDPR notifications. If that doesn't go far enough there's also a really great ultra annoyances list that'll unstick and remove just about anything that tries to constantly stick itself on your screen.

https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

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Re:Firefox 81.0 by GekkePrutser on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:31PM (#24561624)
It does but very often a site won't let you proceed until you clicked the ok button on their annoying popup. And because the pop-up is blocked, there's no way to proceed then :(

I've seen this on several sites now. Understandable but having to turn off ublock puts you on the radar of all the trackers again.

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Re:Firefox 81.0 by dheera on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:30PM (#24562008)
Maybe we need a more advanced plugin that auto-agrees to all those tracking cookies to make the websites think they got permission and work, but then blocks/deletes those cookies so that they don't actually get to track.

Or even better, if the tracking uses some commonly available libraries, actually mess with their tracking data and send it back so that it's a lost cause on their part to even try to track people. Doubly awesome if FireFox can ship a browser that in its default configuration messes up tracking data with false data (hee hee).

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Re:Firefox 81.0 by GekkePrutser on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:49AM (#24567010)
It would be amazing if it could to that! But with the current marketshare of Firefox, it would be a drop in the ocean :)
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Re:Firefox 81.0 by dheera on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:02PM (#24560487)
Oh thanks, this looks amazing!
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