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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by harel on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:29AM (#30413648)
Careful what you wish for - it can, and probably will get worst. I still get cookie rage every time I have to deal with cookie popups. To put things in perspective, i recommend trying to run with a pihole plugged in your network. Even just for a week or two. The difference is so stark it emphasises how shit things are right now.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by 5e92cb50239222b on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:35AM (#30413675)
Just a friendly reminder to anyone reading this — the "annoyances" lists you can enable in uBlock Origin get rid of basically all cookie popups. I haven't seen one in a couple of years.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by Sander_Marechal on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:09AM (#30414388)
Just a note that sometimes this blocks the popup but not the background overlay that goes along with the popup. This makes interacting or even scrolling with the site impossible. It only happens occasionally and it's nothing a quick "zap element" in ublock doesn't fix. But it can be surprising.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by marcusklaas on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:47AM (#30413754)
Did not know this, just enabled all of them. Thank you!
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by i67vw3 on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:12AM (#30413948)
There is also an extension on chrome and firefox store named 'I don't care about cookies' which is specifically made for this issue.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by huqedato on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:39AM (#30415215)
I had a mixed experience with this extension: very effective but it breaks many sites - initially I didn't understand why, it took me some time to identify the culprit.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by bmn__ on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:54AM (#30414768)
Better: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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