• jochem@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s bought by Avast. I immediately uninstalled it when I learned about the news. No way that they don’t want get a return on investment by e.g. selling your data.

    Consent-o-matic is better (actually sets the minimum amount of cookies) and is developed by university employees, whom I trust more.

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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      1 year ago

      Why not just add the I don’t care about cookies list to ublock origin? The list itself is fine. It’s the extension that I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. They can’t collect your data without the extension…

      • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        It sometimes breaks sites because it just blocks the dialog, but doesn’t actually answer what the dialog wants to know (i.e. reject all cookies).

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          Technically websites must not track you before you consented to the cookies, but I’m not confident most sites implemented it this way :/

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          1 year ago

          That makes sense. It’s probably an unnecessary list at this point to be honest. Also lmfao at Avast buying that extension. That sucks.

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      Consent-o-matic doesnt really work though. Have been using it for a year but went back to the community i dont care about cookies addon