Thursday 11 October 2018

The Browser Keeps Bugging Me

Lately the browser and/or websites seems to keep bugging me, and I am getting a little tired of it.

The questions it keeps asking for each website are the following:

  1. "We use cookies to ensure ... etc."
  2. "Would you like Firefox to save this login for [sitename]?"
  3. "Will you allow [sitename] to send notifications?"

The amount of questions a website/webbrowser offers me seems to have been proliferating lately.

I always accept cookies, but I never want the other options.

Seeing as I am using Firefox at the moment, let's see what we can do about it.

  1. The "i-don't care about cookies' addon1 2 seems to suit me just fine.
  2. Preferences - Privacy & Security - Forms & Passwords - turn off "Remember logins and passwords for websites".
  3. Go to "about:config". Search for "dom.webnotifications". Set "dom.webnotifications.enabled" to false to not see any notifications3.

UBlock addon4 5 seems to be also very good.

References

[1] I-Don't-Care-About-Cookies website
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
[2] I-Don't-Care-About-Cookies addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/
[3] Web Push notifications in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox
[4] Firefox Addon UBlock
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
[5] Wikipedia - UBlock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

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