How do you deal with endless cookies dialogues?

netvor@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 164 points –

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless "accept/reject cookies" dialogues?

Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is ...just awful.

Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it's rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly --- or at least not trying to "get you". At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for "reject all" or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I've just seen too many of them where clicking anything but "accept all" will lead to some sort of visual punishment.

Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just .. darn ... everywhere, all the frickin' time.

Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just "accept all" muscle memory? Plugins? Using just one site (lemmy.world, obviously) and nothing else? Something better?

Bonus, question (technical take): is there a perspective that this could be dealt on browser technical level? To me it smells like the kind of problem that could be solved in a similar way like language -- ie. via HTTP headers that come from browser preferences.

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Alternative for if you want to say no to the cookies:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

Consent-o-matic is great but it does occasionally get stuck in an endless loop on particularly devious websites.

You can change a couple of settings in Firefox to deal with most (but not all) instantly.

Commenter there says

Careful, mode 2 means reject all or fall back to accept all if there is no Reject All button.

so at least with the post's used value 2 it's not a replacement or equivalent alternative to Consent-O-Matic.

Looks like value 1 would be reject all though.