There's also the Consent-O-Matic browser extension to automatically decline cookies
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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I disabled it, I don't remember what was the issue, I'll have a try again, thanks for the reminder
I find it works 90% of the time. Which makes the 10% it doesn’t work annoying because I’m not used to declining cookies anymore 😅
It works for me all the times, the problem is that some sites break totally until it finishes to refuse the cookies (can't be used, black screen etc etc)
It's not enabled by default. I too just learned about this recently.
Edit:
On the topic of uBlock Origin, you can also use it to filter out content on the web version of Lemmy since it doesn't have a native keyword filtering feature. Just add to "my filters" and swap in your own instance.
For comments:
feddit.uk##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/elon/i)))
For posts:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/elon/i))
For urls:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(a[href*="elon.com"])
Ublock, filter out the term "linux" and "trump" on lemmy.
......huh, look at that. Lemmy has 6 posts total. Thats 2 more than yesterday! The fediverse is growing!
I have quite the extensive list I've been building over the past few years and so far my record is only 3 posts visible on the frontpage. Most of the time it's nowhere that bad though, but I do notice that it's putting in a lot of work.
Zero Elon Musk news is what I dream of. Fuck that cunt. Thanks for sharing this!
If only my friends believed me that dark patterns were real.
I'm the paranoid crazy one because I say to get the hell off fb and x.
How in the world can you have that view when companies literally advertise about doing those dark patterns?
They think all corporations good. Anything else scary and bad. Only use apple and Netflix.
I don't see how someone could have hat view. You see so much ui chicanery, especially with popups.
Your friends might be stupid if they are not realizing that those banners are designed to trick people
Consent o Matic doesn't just hide them but actually declines the banners actively. Maybe it has an impact on some statistics that will probably never matter.
That's a good point, although I have no idea if that actually matters since you IIRC have to affirmatively consent under the GDPR. I try not to add more browser extensions than I strictly need to (and try to only use very popular ones) to try to have some small defense against fingerprinting (even though that's rough to avoid these days).
Browser extensions like Consent-O-Matic also grant yet another piece of software access to nearly every aspect of my digital life – facilitated mainly through the browser – although it being under the MIT License, recommended by Mozilla, and developed by researchers at Aarhaus' CAVI offset that risk a lot.
As long as uBO blocks them, that's good enough for me.
In the annoyances you can block the log in with Google/Facebook too
Blocking accounts.google.com and facebook.com (you can unblock them on google/facebook if you actually use google/facebook) (in the "advanced mode" view that tells you what third party domains are on a page) gets rid of those, too!
(or maybe it was a different facebook domain, I dunno, we just block everything facebook on sight)
Thanks for the info. Like many, I use "I don't care about cookies", still sometimes I had to disable on some sites otherwise those became impossible to login or simply access. Is this ublock setting similar?
Couldn't say. I only just recently started using it and haven't run into problems so far.
FYI, "I don't care about cookies" is owned by Avast, and I can't even find the official source code anymore.
Ok now you've convinced me. Meanwhile I've noticed no troubles adopting the UBO cookies filter on Firefox mobile, time to do the same on my laptop. Thanks
I just enable every filter except for regional
Why not regional?
Well if you aren't visiting . Kz, or . kz adjacent websites - you probably don't need to worry about them.
from what I know, they're only meant to be used as a last resort if a website in a certain language still loads ads. those filters do a blanket ban on a lot of addresses, so they break many sites if you get girlbossy and enable them all
Neat, thanks.
I use another extension called "I don't care about cookies" which is good, but does occasionally get confused.
This just accepts all cookies. The default should be to deny them which is what consent-o-matic tries to do. With ublock it's like you're ignoring the pop-up which would be the next best thing.
FYI, "I don't care about cookies" is owned by Avast, and I can't even find the official source code anymore.
Can anyone recommend a good self destruction cookie add on for Firefox?
Or a browser better than Firefox and Chrome, both for Linux and for Android?
Much appreciated!
For FireFox Cookie AutoDelete.
Thanks!
Yes, this one. It’s one of my three essential extensions: uBlock Origin, NoScript, and Cookie AutoDelete.
If I recall, there's actually a setting in Firefox that automatically deletes all cookies when you close the browser.
LibreWolf is a fork from Firefox. It is a much better alternative for privacy, and deletes cookies by default. You can also configure which pages you want to maintain cookies, e.g. for automatic login (if that's something you want)
I like that option!
my solution is to use container tabs with temporary containers. every new tab or a different website gets a fresh session with no cookies.
I've enabled it yet I still see cookie notices on a bunch of websites. StackOverflow for example.
StackOverflow was my inclination for searching this last week because it pops up the massive cookie banner on EVERY single page load for me. I enabled both the "Cookie Notices" and "Annoyances" lists at the same time - one of them handled it and I think it was Annoyances if I'm remembering correctly.
Try enabling that one too if you haven't already.
EDIT: Just realized I need to enable the social widgets list too : D
So as I wrote in other comments, I selected this filter list and cookies warning disappeared. After a couple of days I noticed a simple troubleshooting, login (in feddit for example) can't be permanent and requires login any time. I guess there's no way out.