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My additional recommendations: 1. You don't need a separate browser extension for blocking cookie notices, Ublock Origin can do that just fine. You just need t
by Narushia 9mo ago
My additional recommendations:
1. You don't need a separate browser extension for blocking cookie notices, Ublock Origin can do that just fine. You just need to enable the cookie notice filters in the settings (they are disabled by default).
2. AdAway on Android allows network-level blocking without resorting to a VPN (it's based on /etc/hosts). Though it does require root.
- penguin_booze 9mo ago> You just need to enable the cookie notice filters in the settings I didn't know it existed. FWIW, it's under Settings > Filter lists > Cookie notices.
- esperent 9mo agoThe problem with ad blocker apps on Android is that they always require a either a VPN, in which cases my banking apps don't work, or root, which is getting harder and harder to get and probably also breaks my banking apps. However, I have found that using NextDNS as a private DNS server works and doesn't cause any problems like this.
- Zak 9mo agoI'm still having good results with root, Magisk, and Play Integrity Fix. That does involve some knowledge and effort though, so what I point others to is Mullvad DNS, which is free: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls Don't forget to give apps that fuck with you in the name of security 1-star reviews!
- nottorp 9mo agoBut Consent-O-Matic doesn't just block cookie notices, it clicks on the appropriate buttons to deny them first for the major kinds of cookie dialogs.
- MarsIronPI 9mo agoIsn't the point of the notices that you have to explicitly agree to them for the site to be allowed to track you? Wouldn't never accepting be equivalent to rejecting?
- nottorp 9mo agoSome of them still come preset to accept all.
- MarsIronPI 9mo agoIs that legal per the GDPR?
- encom 9mo agoI refuse to engage with them on principle and will not signal denial or acceptance, because doing so would legitimise this farcical, dilettante excuse for a government "solution".
- nottorp 9mo agoIt's not a government solution. All they have to do is not track you. Private industry invented these dialogs in the hope that you'll be too tired to deny anything.
- encom 9mo agoI get the point you're trying to make, but it absolutely is a government solution, because it was obvious to anyone that this would be the result. And there has been nothing done to remedy or even admit their failure. Asking big tech nicely not to be evil has never worked. Besides, there are plenty of cases where websites without tracking have the popups anyway, just to be on the safe side from the wrath of EU bureaucracy.