zlacker

Trying to avoid tracking on the modern web is a losing battle for any but the most hyperparanoid, consistently careful, and technically astute individuals.

For everyone else: you're going to leak identity information one way or another, and it's going to get correlated. The more plugged-in and connected you are, the harder it is to remain anonymous.

If you really value your privacy, don't use the internet or any types of computers, including phones, and never go outside.

It's a cat and mouse game, and the cats have won.

>>pmoria+(OP)
I wish I'd have a plugin that makes the difference before/after accepting cookie consent, always accept, and always flush them between pages.

I know by experience that the key isn't about refusing them, but letting them having those "user accepted" KPI values, even if it goes nowhere behind.

>>Psype+X1
I use uBlock Origin's element picker and element blocker features to just make the popup notices disappear, without accepting them.

But that's mostly just a habit of mine that I know is pretty useless, as websites don't need cookies to track you, and I really don't know why they even bother anymore.

>>pmoria+(OP)
This comment is true on the facts, but militates for what I consider to be a poor conclusion. I know a lot of people who talk this way, and it's usually those who are best positioned to defend themselves from surveillance. This is annoying to me because giving up on surveillance defense doesn't really make sense in the long term for individuals, and we need technical experts in the resistance.

Try to remember that policy, law, and major social trends tend to have slower feedback loops than other machines. It's hard to know today where we will innovate that will ultimately make a contribution to societal progress, but I can tell you with pretty high certainty that giving up won't help change anything for the better.

Like the lady said, "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings."

>>pmoria+(OP)
Personally, if I had to assign the web tracking industry to either cats or mice, I'd chose the rodents.

>>pmoria+r2
Try using the extension "I don't care about cookies"

It's excellent. I have needed to disable it occasionally to make basic site functionality work on some sites that I absolutely need to use, though I'm forgetting which ones.

>>docmar+wA
ICYMI: That extension was bought up by Avast.

https://www.androidpolice.com/i-dont-care-about-cookies-acqu...

>>docmar+wA
I've used Cookie AutoDelete. It was good. Is "I don't care about cookies better"? If so, how?

>>pmoria+(OP)
> If you really value your privacy, don't use the internet or any types of computers, including phones, and never go outside.

Or, perhaps, take a bit of a more nuanced view of things. Perfect privacy, exactly like perfect security, is and always has been an unattainable ideal. But less than perfection is still very useful.

Locking your front door won't stop someone with a battering ram, but you might want to do it anyway.

>>pmoria+Ar1
> Cookie AutoDelete

Don't bother with this extension as it can't delete other storage locations where there is persistant storage. Also Firefox has TCP, Total Cookie Protection so you don't need them anyway.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-pr...

Better to just sanitize on close https://www.privacyguides.org/desktop-browsers/#sanitize-on-... and maybe keep history.

If you want to keep persistent logins then whitelist those specific cookies to those specific sites or use a password manager.

>>bacchu+Pl1
Well poop!

>>pmoria+Ar1
I'm not sure if Cookie AutoDelete hides or auto-accepts cookie popups, but that was the main motivation for using "I don't care about cookies" -- I don't want to see all these ridiculous cookie notices on every site I visit.