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They’re not lazy, they’re maliciously compliant.

Often times they're not even compliant.

It's a lot easier to dislike GDPR when you don't live in a country that benefits from it, but it still annoys you.

Excellent points, but the cookie banners were a response to the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. In fact the banners predate GDPR by about a decade! I know this because I decided to make my own banner that was slightly less annoying about five years before GDPR was a thing.

Funnily enough most of your points are still correct precisely because, as you say, "most people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners".

Makes such a useful piece of software, and is also wise enough to set boundaries to protect himself from the toxic pressure of open source development.

What a G.

gorhill says in its GitHub page that you can donate to the maintainers of the filter lists.

Does that kill just shorts or everything you mentioned in your comment?

I thought hover play functionality can be turned off in youtube settings?

But as I was typing this, I realised it's useful for non logged in youtube, I assume.

I've used uBlock to get rid of everything: the homepage (leaving only the search bar; so no stupid video suggestions), the upcoming videos and the comment section. I go on Youtube to watch the videos I know I want to watch, not find new videos. I know this sounds a bit radical, but it works well for me.

And their tip didn't work to remove the cookie banner on their site

What's funny is I didn't even know any of this because I already have PopUpOff lol

That's Substack platform fault.

I hope, EU legislation will force websites to accept a global “Auto-decline”/“Minimum-possible” configurable in the web browser, in which case no banner can be shown. IMO, that’s how it should have always been.

The banner is a stupid solution. Tracking and ad profiles should be completely banned instead.

There is also "consent o matic", banner does appear but go away in less than a second and auto decline as possible. Does not work on 100% of website but still does a good job.

you can use it to bypass facebooks login popup(without logging in)

On the flip side, it's a good way to test if it works.

Usually anything related to GDPR.
I believe California has a similar law framework.

Essentially websites are obligated to ask for consent of storing cookies.
Usually they can be denied and you won't have a personalized experience (e.g. dark mode wont be persistent between page visits) but it should not prevent you from viewing.
It's just companies will pressure you into accepting them by utilizing dark patterns and try to coax you into accepting the most privacy invasive options (and selling your data to >500 advertisers)