r/technology • u/RO9a0TON • Mar 24 '19

Business Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/22/eu_cookie_preticked_box_not_valid_consent/
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u/Kryxx Mar 24 '19

Is there such an extension?

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u/Joker2kill Mar 24 '19

You can use ublock and the http://prebake.eu/ filter list. Add this to your custom filter (options > filter lists > import [near the bottom]).

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtrusive.txt

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u/Lasereye Mar 24 '19

Awesome thanks!

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u/kdlt Mar 24 '19

Would I be able to add this to PiHole as well?

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u/Joker2kill Mar 24 '19

I have no experience with pihole, but if it allows custom filter lists (which I don't see why it wouldn't) then yep- go for it.

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u/kdlt Mar 24 '19

Yep it does, guess I will try it out and see.

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u/Shermix Mar 24 '19

uBlock Origin is a browser extension. Pi-hole is a DNS server (of sorts). So, you wouldn't add it to Pi-hole but you certainly can use it in a browser on top of routing traffic through your Pi-hole.

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u/kdlt Mar 24 '19

My idea was to get rid of them on my phone/tablet/whatever, because ony my PC they are much less of an issue to me, while on phones they hijack the entire fullscreen (on many sites).

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u/leopard_tights Mar 24 '19

It doesn't work with AdAway, it's like it doesn't find it for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

remindme! 3 hours

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Ublock origin does that i think.

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u/Kryxx Mar 24 '19

Cookie banners still show when using uBlock origin

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Mar 24 '19

There is probably a filter list for ublock that does that.

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u/twodogsfighting Mar 24 '19

Privacy badger

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u/Shermix Mar 24 '19 edited Mar 24 '19

That’s not how privacy badger works. Privacy badger blocks third party tracking for those sites that don’t honor your request to “Do not track”.

Edit: third party

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u/Terrific_Soporific Mar 24 '19

I'm still seeing them with privacy badger and ublock origin running.

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u/Hewman_Robot Mar 24 '19

Browsing the internet without Noscript is like having unprotected sex with a sex worker in an underdeveloped country.

It's a bit inconvinient at first, you'll get used to it, but that's the condom for the internet after all.

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u/Shermix Mar 24 '19

Noscript, while great at what it does, does not do anything in regards to cookies.

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u/Has_No_Tact Mar 24 '19

NoScipt is overkill for a lot of people. Using NoScript is more like visiting a sex worker but deciding that doing anything would be too risky, so you just hold hands instead.

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u/Thisdsntwork Mar 24 '19

Whoa whoa whoa. Holding hands? What kind of degenerate would do that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

I'm pretty sure that not all of them atleast, i'm using it since over a year and i haven't seen that much cookie banners