Script to kill GDPR popups

mrochester

mrochester

mrochester

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Hi all.

Can anyone recommend a script that will kill all GDPR popups? I'm sooooo sick of having to set preferences on sites I have already set and just want to kill the whole damn thing so it stops asking me.

Many thanks.

M.
 
mrochester said:
Hi all.

Can anyone recommend a script that will kill all GDPR popups? I'm sooooo sick of having to set preferences on sites I have already set and just want to kill the whole damn thing so it stops asking me.

Many thanks.

M.
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I've considered writing one. But I'd be interested in this too. GDPR has effectively reduced privacy by making it nonviable to disable or delete site cookies. If you browse in private mode it's essentially whackamole with closing GDPR notifications. Your only option is to let the sites track you so that they... know you don't want to be tracked.
 
I use the Firefox add-on "I don't care about cookies" :) That kills most of the GDPR pop-ups.

Kinda related, but what I'm also looking for is something that can kill modal overlays. Like the ones that pop-up with "plus rate us", "take this survey", even though I've only been on the web site for 5 seconds. They're the bane of Web 2.0 like what the old pop-up windows used to be back in the late 90s.

Would also be nice to find something that kills the "sign in with Facebook / Twitter". I've found a workaround for Pinterest, a script called Pinterest Without Registration, but would be nice to find more for other sites.
 
Many sites go out of their way to make it difficult so you give up and just click accept.
But to be honest, do you really want to visit a site like that does this? If it’s not easy, I close it and go elsewhere.
 
The 'I don't care about cookies' solution, is just auto accepting the cookies, so you will still be tracked !
unless you
- select the chrome/ff options to delete 3rd party cookies,
- use UblockO/similar
- use first party isolation in ff, to ensure 3rd party cookies are not shared.

and (re-posting) even with those, some of the first party cookies are being subverted https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/au6pb8/adtech_is_starting_to_adapt_to_blocking_of/

I'm actively looking for a solution
 
The solution is an easy one: a proper site cookie which just says: "If you see me, gather no information". All but the hardest settings would allow this, and it would be entirely within GDPR. But this is Capitalism in action, and doing that stops people making money. So no-one wants to roll one out. Instead we get asked every time we visit the site in case we've changed our mind or given up resisting.
 
Meridian said:
... Instead we get asked every time we visit the site in case we've changed our mind or given up resisting.
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not sure what you mean - unless you delete 1st (and sometimes3rd party) cookies between visits, you're not going to be asked on next visit, and,
if you use FF FPI , you should not be asked.

cookies to remember shopping baskets, are useful, but,
I would like a white list option, where you could get prompted to say do you want to persistantly allow this cookie, but maybe you would (initially) be bombarded with requests


Pawnless Endgame said:
Kinda related, but what I'm also looking for is something that can kill modal overlays. Like the ones that pop-up with "plus rate us", "take this survey", even though I've only been on the web site for 5 seconds. They're the bane of Web 2.0 like what the old pop-up windows used to be back in the late 90s.

Would also be nice to find something that kills the "sign in with Facebook / Twitter". I've found a workaround for Pinterest, a script called Pinterest Without Registration, but would be nice to find more for other sites.
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for overlaycide I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/
... never found a use for Pinterest
 
Meridian said:
The solution is an easy one: a proper site cookie which just says: "If you see me, gather no information". All but the hardest settings would allow this, and it would be entirely within GDPR. But this is Capitalism in action, and doing that stops people making money. So no-one wants to roll one out. Instead we get asked every time we visit the site in case we've changed our mind or given up resisting.
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This is the problem for me, having to accept every single time. It's a pain in the arse.
 
if you've used FPI, you don't get asked the next time ... just one tick on the first visit, nothing on subsequent visits.
 
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Here’s an example from 2016, playing on the seemingly never-ending European cookie law messages on every website ever. Pop a legitimate ad, make it invisible, and overlay it across a GDPR Cookie pop-up. At that point, it’s unintentional advert time. .. or worse
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