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For those that don't know, Firefox has in-built support for automatically rejecting cookies and blocking the cookie banners from popping up.

To enable this feature, go to about:config, and perform the following:

  • change cookiebanners.service.mode from 0 to 2

To have this functionality in Private browsing mode, you should also:

  • change cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing from 0 to 2.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Careful, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button. So use that only if cookies are disabled or otherwise controlled, for example by an AddOn like Cookie AutoDelete. If not, rather use mode 1 that hits only a Reject All button if available but ignores others.

See https://community.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/ and https://github.com/mozilla/cookie-banner-rules-list

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, firefox achieving feature parity with lynx? :^)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

CLI is king ;-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s good but nowhere near as good as I-Dont-Like-Cookies was. Shame that guy sold out. Consent-O-Matic still seems to miss a lot of consent screens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There is a community version called "I still don't care about cookies" https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah that's a much better choice than just blanket blocking all cookies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh boy this is great for privacy but it’s also going to break a lot of academic shit that relies on cookies for authentication

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think this blocks all cookies, but instead disables all non-essential cookies in those cookie consent dialogs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

According to Mozilla setting both to the value 1 is the better idea. The fallback then won't be "Accept all".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I prefer an "accept all" approach, refusing all of them will lead to a degraded experience

Except abusers like Facebook who go in their dedicated isolated container

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When mentioning data harvesting leviathans, Facebook is definitely on the list, but Google is the undisputed champ of surveillance capitalism. They’ve just got so many people addicted to their “free” services that most don’t want to mention it. I use Firefox mainly because it’s not Chromium based.

[–] SomeOtherUsername 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does "Reject All" also object to legitimate interest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't believe it does, but you can disable cookies completely via the normal Firefox settings, if you want to go that route. However, be aware that it may break site functionality to do so.

[–] SomeOtherUsername 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a better way. Enable first party isolation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, that's golden advice! Thanks, stranger, I'm learning all kinds of stuff from this post :-D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This isn't anything new. Firefox lost the lead ages ago (thanks, Mozilla):

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a chrome reskin, cryptominer and the CEO's an anti-LGBT fascist. no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The cryptominer part is just FUD. Learn how it works. And the browser itself is way more private then FF by default.

The CEO was one also of the cofounders of Mozilla. How ironic.

Also, the actual CEO of Mozilla is doing a great job... At increasing her paycheck while firing developers:

https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-execs-salary-up-400/2050/

Mozilla is one of the most corrupt orgs out there, right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mozilla is one of the most corrupt orgs out there, right now.

Really? Compared to google, the banks, etc? You say they're one of the worst?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

dude's a Brave shill. ignore, block and move on.