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Fork of the popular "I don't care about cookies" extension
Author : bj-rn
Score : 96 points
Date : 2022-09-20 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| echelon wrote:
| Stop using / enabling Chrome and its derivatives.
|
| Any use of that codebase - Brave, etc. - empowers Google. They're
| the ones pushing it forward, and developer mindshare empowers the
| player holding the reins.
|
| Firefox or broke.
| ThunderSizzle wrote:
| Firefox also wants to deplatform me and nearly half my country.
|
| I'm forced to choose the least worst option between the two,
| and they're both pretty crappy choices.
| jraph wrote:
| > Firefox also wants to deplatform me and nearly half my
| country.
|
| What does this mean?
| geraldwhen wrote:
| https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-
| deplat...
|
| Looks like Mozilla believes they can be the arbiters of
| Truth and ensure people don't see double plus ungood
| thinkings.
| jackmott wrote:
| skyyler wrote:
| >Firefox also wants to deplatform me and nearly half my
| country.
|
| Really? I thought they were focusing on deplatforming white
| supremacists and hatred. Does that cover half of your
| country?
| hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
| 'Just don't use it' isn't viable advice for some/many people.
| dividedbyzero wrote:
| For whatever reason, Firefox uses 30-40% CPU at all times on
| my 2020 Intel Macbook, meaning battery life is quite short
| and the slightest bit of load on top will trigger the fan,
| which hardly ever happens when using Brave or Chrome instead.
| FF worked well enough for a year or so once they got
| acceleration to work properly on macOS, then this happened.
| Besides, I need to run Chrome anyway for various webapps I
| need to use that are broken in FF.
| wartijn_ wrote:
| The original version of this add-on is available on Firefox and
| getting this fork on Firefox is on the to do list[0]
|
| [0] https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-
| Cookies/issues...
| Liquix wrote:
| Excellent extension with one glaring flaw: IDCAC _accepts_
| cookies if there is no option to decline them. You don 't see
| annoying popups anymore, but the cookies are still there tracking
| you. This can be combated by combining it combined with Cookie
| AutoDelete [0]. Cookie AutoDelete solves the problem by purging
| all cookies automatically (except your whitelist) when the tab is
| closed. They work great together
|
| [0] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
| ThunderSizzle wrote:
| Isn't uMatrix just as good, since it blocks non-first party
| cookies by default?
| wartijn_ wrote:
| You don't need uMatrix to block all third party cookies, in
| both Firefox and Chromium that is a build in option.
|
| And I don't think that option is as good as IDCAC (or
| Consent-O-Matic [0]) + CookieAutoDelete. With those two add-
| ons even first party cookies are deleted, while you don't
| need to close banners all the time.
|
| [0] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
| pavon wrote:
| uMatrix has been unmaintained for 2 years and has known
| vulnerabilities[1]. Time to move to another extension.
|
| [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/15/umatrix-has-an-unfixed-
| vul...
| karaterobot wrote:
| I thought the goal of IDCAC was to get rid of those annoying
| cookie consent popups. It tries to block or hide the popup,
| but when cookies are required to use the site it
| automatically accepts them, assuming you will handle erasing
| unwanted cookies in some other way.
| dnissley wrote:
| > _IDCAC accepts cookies if there is no option to decline them.
| You don 't see annoying popups anymore, but the cookies are
| still there tracking you._
|
| Yes. Because I don't care about cookies. This is not an anti-
| tracking extension. I do not care about being tracked. I just
| want to stop being bombarded with cookie consent dialogs.
| stvnbn wrote:
| FYI this extension recognizes pop-ups and automatically fills
| them out based on your preferences. Currently open sourced
|
| https://consentomatic.au.dk/
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _"I don't care about cookies" web extension acquired by Avast_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850799 - Sept 2022 (215
| comments)
|
| _I don 't care about cookies_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26519457 - March 2021 (187
| comments)
| leslielurker wrote:
| I was never clear on this extension. Does it just suppress the
| the cookie prompts, does it only accept essential cookies or does
| it do the default action and accept everything?
| fourmajor wrote:
| From their Chrome web store page
| (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-
| about-...)
|
| > In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-
| ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will
| automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it
| will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories,
| depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.
| [deleted]
| xuhu wrote:
| It would be awesome if Avast moved the extension source code to
| Github or somewhere else public. I hope existing users won't
| settle blindly for whatever changes get added from now on.
| anilshanbhag wrote:
| This is a manifest V2 extension. Unless someone converts it to
| V3, it will stop working end of this year.
| ravenstine wrote:
| Does anyone know if Brave will still support v2?
| yyyk2 wrote:
| It's based on Chromium, so no.
| NavinF wrote:
| Come on, you could have googled it instead of just
| guessing.
|
| Eg https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20059
|
| > Yes - manifest v2 extensions will be supported by Brave
| We'll be taking steps as V2 is sunset by Chromium team (htt
| ps://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/)
|
| >During the deprecation period, we can keep this
| functionality via patch (since it's there for Enterprise).
| After V2 is pulled from store, we'll need to stand up our
| own extension store for manifest v2
| gnicholas wrote:
| Is it that simple? Brave has various proprietary bits, so
| it's possible they could maintain v2 support. Perhaps
| others know if this is feasible, from a technical
| perspective.
| ThunderSizzle wrote:
| Until a chromium browser let's you use arbitrary
| extension stores, I don't think there's any fork that's
| divergent enough. And I haven't found one after months of
| searching.
|
| I'm almost to the point of trying to do it myself.
| d110af5ccf wrote:
| I don't believe Firefox has announced a discontinuation date
| for V2. If your browser vendor breaks your stuff perhaps you
| should consider switching browsers ...
| klondike_ wrote:
| Not a problem on Firefox and its derivatives
| bj-rn wrote:
| They are working on that: https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-
| Care-About-Cookies/pull/9
| [deleted]
| est31 wrote:
| FTR, Firefox is working on supporting this natively:
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1783015
|
| According to this german article: https://www.soeren-
| hentzschel.at/firefox/firefox-sagt-cookie... , you can already
| set various values for the cookiebanners.service.mode
| about:config setting on Firefox nightly. 1 denies all cookies, 2
| also accepts if there is no option to deny or if denying didn't
| work.
| theobeers wrote:
| I'm glad someone did this. I immediately uninstalled the
| extension when I saw that it had been acquired by Avast.
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