News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites. Parent comment

Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by noisem4ker on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:12AM (#45678096)
uBlock Origin + Cookie Notice blocklists also work fine.

I started to write this comment meaning to add that Firefox does it all by itself now, but I just read that such feature "is not currently available anymore".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction

Does anyone know what happened after years of development, before I delve into their Bugzilla to find out?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by Doohickey-d on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:38AM (#45678862)
Using uBlock to hide the cookie banners mostly works, but there are occasional websites where it's buggy: I have to disable uBlock, accept or reject cookies, then re-enable uBlock.

So some websites actually require an accept/reject, and don't work if just visually hiding the banner, which is what this does.

[ Parent | on HN ]