[HN Gopher] Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS
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Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS
Author : rchaves
Score : 30 points
Date : 2022-02-17 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| manholio wrote:
| Could someone build a large list of such cookies or local storage
| objects, that I can simply import into my browser and it will
| remember that I already clicked the consent button? It should be
| a standard feature of adblockers by now, it has gotten completely
| out of hand. A billion people losing 10 billion seconds of
| productivity per day, a handful of lifetimes wasted.
| gnicholas wrote:
| HyperWeb (a YC company, I believe) offers this functionality in
| its Safari extension. Very helpful!
| hundchenkatze wrote:
| Yep and the feature is just rule based auto-clicking elements
| after the page loads. So it can skip other annoyances like
| newsletter or app download prompts too.
|
| https://guide.hyperweb.app/remove-annoyances/autoclick/
| kibibu wrote:
| Does it actually simulate a click in the browser or just call
| the click event handler?
| pl0x wrote:
| I used auto web and it rendered Sarai unusable.
| traceroute66 wrote:
| Sure you _could_ do that.
|
| Or you could just download Firefox Focus and enjoy ephemeral
| browsing sessions where all traces can be eradicated at one touch
| of the little trash icon.
| xd1936 wrote:
| Great app, but doesn't have anything to do with the goal of the
| OP. Firefox Focus doesn't block EU cookie banners.
| traceroute66 wrote:
| Yes, I know it doesn't strictly block banners.
|
| But for 99.9% of people it frankly achieves _roughly_ the
| same goal of being able to hide from cookies with minimal
| effort.
| hundchenkatze wrote:
| The goal isn't to hide from cookies, it's not having to
| click through cookie consent modals. Having ephemeral
| sessions actually makes this problem worse because sites
| actually use a cookie to track whether you've consented to
| the other cookies the site wants to use. So not having the
| "has/has not consented" cookie causes the modal to appear,
| making you set your preferences every time you visit the
| site instead of just the first time.
| andrewmutz wrote:
| The problem isnt the cookies. The problem is the consent
| popups.
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| I don't understand the advantage to using Firefox over Safari on
| iOS. No uBlock Origin = what's the point = I have zero interest
| in an iPad.
| plushpuffin wrote:
| It can sync your history and bookmarks with desktop Firefox. I
| think it's also affected by any ad blockers used by iOS Safari
| such as AdGuard, so there's very little disadvantage.
| rrdharan wrote:
| It's not able to use safari content blockers as far as I know
| (I don't think any mom Safari browsers can?).
| fsflover wrote:
| How about freedom?
| zerocrates wrote:
| In what sense? On iOS you're still using Safari under the
| hood basically, so there's pretty minimal "freedom" involved,
| if any.
| fsflover wrote:
| https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-
| impor...
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| If you're interested in freedom, as in free software, why
| would you even touch an apple device
| fsflover wrote:
| Any journey starts with one step:
| https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-journey-begins-
| with-...
| meepmorp wrote:
| and if you're using an apple device, why bother with a
| second class browser? The sync isn't worth the hassle.
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| You seem to be implying that apple is first rate.
|
| _hard_ disagree
| zerocrates wrote:
| I think they meant "second class" as in "second-class
| citizen" not "second-rate."
| spicybright wrote:
| What hassle? The one time app download? Firefox sync
| works fine.
| worik wrote:
| On computer hardware that the writer owns compiling free software
| for other computer hardware they own - they need a license from
| Apple.
|
| What does it actually mean to buy something these days?
| yepthatsreality wrote:
| It means voting with your wallet and helping push society away
| from corpo traps like this.
| [deleted]
| worik wrote:
| Well yes! I develop on Apple. I do not own any Apple
| hardware.
|
| But I get the impression that for the people of North America
| tablet/smartphone mean iPad/iPhone.
|
| I have no data, but it is the very strong impression I get
| skymt wrote:
| About half of smartphones sold in the US and Canada are
| iPhones. The Mexican market is dominated by Android.
| brimble wrote:
| Part of the impression that iOS is dominant comes from
| usage stats. Last I had insight into the stats (maybe
| three years ago? Four?) iOS users spent way more time
| using their devices than Android users, it had been that
| way basically since iOS and Android had existed, and that
| state showed no signs of changing. Web browsing? Average
| iOS user does more of it. Time in apps? Ditto. So they
| have a much larger usage footprint, are more visible in
| hands as you're out and about, et c.
| howinteresting wrote:
| It's kind of terrible that you can use extensions XOR your own
| browser on iOS. One of the many things that drove me back to
| Android after a good three years using an iPhone.
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