Cybersecurity - Memes @lemmy.world cron @feddit.org 2mo ago

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Nothing tells me more that you care about my privacy than sharing my data with hundreds or thousands of companies.

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Consent-o-matic for the win.
- Does that actually block "legitimate" cookies too? Because many of the pop ups are now set up in a way that "reject all" doesn't reject those, and I honestly don't trust that the extension is doing anything beyond "clicking" "reject all" on your behalf, meaning the hundreds of "legitimate" cookies will still get through.
  
  If the plugin knows about it then it can handle it.
  
  Personally, I just use Cookie AutoDelete in addition to the cookie dialog removal extension (in my case, "I Still Don't Care About Cookies").
- nice, thanks
  
  will use this one, as the "i dont care about cookies" extension seems to cease to work nowadays
  
  From memory I don't care accepts all cookies where consent-o-matic will actively opt out of them.
- I think just for desktop at the moment unfortunately
- Nice, I used "I don't care about cookies" for a while which just accepted or hid the pop-up and then blocked tracking locally. They got bought out by some corpo tho so I stopped using them.
  
  There's a maintained fork: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
I wonder what it would be like if there was a setting in Firefox that opened each website in it's own container without any faff. Firefox automatically creates the container for the website if it doesn't already exist and opens the website within it.
- I'm no expert in this matter, but it's probably much more effective to tweak your firefox than clicking around in those cookie banners.
  
  I personally like uMatrix, which offers granular control which sites can run scripts or set cookies. But it is clearly targeted at advanced users.
  
  Like Linux, I don't want it to be the hobby; I just want to use it. If every website opened in it's only container then there is no care about cookies because they can't track you across the web, nor can they try to steal others.
  
  Is uMatrix developed again? Because, since it didn't update webextension APIs, it got much less effective than uBlock Origin with a medium blocking setting.
- You can pretty much do this with Firefox. I'm on my phone but ublock origin can block 3rd party cookies and scripts. This breaks a lot of sites but it also lets you turn those back on, on a case-by-case basis. Plus various other Firefox settings.
- I've only got superficial knowledge on this, but I believe Firefox does roughly that out of the box.
  
  The feature that you're asking for is called "first-party isolation". It was implemented by the Tor Browser devs and upstreamed into Firefox, and it's what the whole Container technology foots upon. You can activate it in Firefox by setting privacy.firstparty.isolate in about:config to true.
  
  But as I understand, Firefox now ships dynamic first-party isolation (dFPI) out of the box. Which is FPI, with a few exceptions to ensure web compatibility.
  This is part of a wider effort called State Partitioning. And they market it to users as Total Cookie Protection. It's a bit confusing...
- That would be awesome.
  
  Defaulting to "Private Browsing" achieves most of the desired effect, but I still have to switch to regular mode for sites I sign in to.
  
  Needless to say, my technique is only effective because I'm a socoal pariah who doesn't sign into anything owned by Meta or Google.
  
  Your method would annoy me because of having to log in to websites 'all of the time' instead of allowing at least some to have persistent logins. Losing website preferences would also be annoying.
Lol, The Verge.
- That was exactly my inspiration for this meme. But it's by far not the only site that does this
We value your privacy = your privacy has value which we can sell
EasyList Cookie List for the win!

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