YSK that uBlock Origin has non-default filters to block cookie consent notices - Lemmy.World

If you go to uBlock Origin’s settings and then select ‘Filter lists’, there’s a list maintained by EasyList and another by AdGuard that both block cookie notices. To my understanding, this isn’t enabled by default (at least it wasn’t when I installed uBO). Apologies if this is common knowledge; I didn’t know about it until recently. — Why YSK: Cookie consent pop-ups are annoyances full of dark patterns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern] designed to frustrate you into affirmatively opting into superfluous data collection and letting companies profit off your information. Saving just a few seconds on pages you click adds up, and this is especially true if you use something like Cookie AutoDelete [https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete] that makes your answers to these pop-ups transient.