The cookie law made this worse.

I used to use an extension that let me whitelist which sites could set cookies (which was pretty much those I wanted to login to). I had to stop using it because I had to allow the cookie preference cookies on too many sites.

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whstl 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

uBlock blocks most of those for me lately.

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pessimizer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can fix that. I use an extension called "I don't care about cookies" that clicks "yes" to all cookies on all websites, and I use another extension* that doesn't allow any cookies to be set unless I whitelist the site, and I can do this finely even e.g. to the point where I accept a cookie from one page to get to the next page, then drop it, and drop the entire site from even that whitelist when I leave the page, setting this all with a couple of clicks.

* Sadly the second is unmaintained, and lets localStorage stuff through. There are other extensions that have to be called in (I still need to hide referers and other things anyway.) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forget_me_not.... I have the simultaneous desire to take the extension over or fork it, and the desire not to get more involved with the sinking ship which is Firefox. Especially with the way they treat extension developers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... does a similar thing.

	▲	graemep 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use the first of those extensions, its the cookie whitelist one that no longer works for me.

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immibis 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There could be an extension to block the banners, too. I think uBO has a feature to block certain CSS classes?

	▲	graemep 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The only thing that works well for me is using an extension that automatically gives permissions and another that auto deletes cookies when i close the tab. The problem with Ublock etc. is that just blocking breaks quite a lot of sites.