Avast aquired "i-dont-care-about-cookies"

The MV2 support timeline is visualized on this page.

 

Thanks! So devs can code hard until next June and from then to refine their extensions until end of next year. Plenty of time, I guess.

 

@nicolaasjan

I had the curiosity that you read.
Many users will not be able to use all the MV3 extensions as they are used to today with MV2 extensions.

 

For those who are wondering what this is about:
Feature request.
I'm following that repo daily.

 

Has my issue with the extension's icon been fixed in this version? To give another example, on this site you need to disable ISDCAC in order to see Twitter. But you can't disable it if the left click menu is not correctly displayed, at least not after page refresh.

https://www.iex.nl/Artikel/760626/Slotcall-dramas-bitcoin-Alfen-en-Meta-maar-hoera-Ahold-en-ABN.aspx

 

I have installed the MV3 version 1.0.9 to test and the left click menu is correctly displayed (but no green check mark):




However, when I click on one of those Twitter links, this happens:



When disabling the extension on this site and accepting all cookies, I get the same.

The only way for me to view the entire Twitter embedded content was to launch a clean Firefox profile with no extensions and accepting all cookies.

 

Fork is gaining momentum.

 

I'm trying to find the correlation between the topic and the posts in ~5 pages now....

 

Weird, I don't have any problems when clicking on those Twitter links, so something must be wrong with Firefox. I do know that on many sites, imbedded content of Twitter, Instagram and YouTube is blocked if you don't approve of cookies. So often I needed to disable IDCAC. I don't know if uBlock Origin also played a role in this.

Good point, but I guess what people are trying to say is that they don't trust IDCAC any longer after the Avast takeover. But perhaps it's indeed best if the posts about the ISDCAC fork get their own thread.

 

There is nothing wrong with Firefox, because I encounter the same in Chromium, where those screenshots were from.
The thing is, my browsers are extremely well protected against third party content.
Only when I temporarily lower the protection, I can see this additional content, which most of the time isn't worth the effort.

 

OK I see, then I misunderstood. So basically, your tracking protection is a bit too aggressive.

 

I don't use customized uBlock in all browsers and their profiles, so sometimes automated extension is handy. I see that Ghostery is serving me lately popup about its ability to block cookie popups:
Originally published on MediaPost, reposted by CDP Institute

https://www.cdpinstitute.org/news/i...lly-opting-visitors-out-from-cookie-tracking/

 

OK cool, so soon Ghostery will also be able to block these nagging cookie pop ups. I might check it out since ISDCAC doesn't support many sites.

 

Is this ISDCAC extension still working OK? I'm getting to see more and more cookie pop ups on websites.

 

If websites come up with new cookie pop-ups, those need to be reported, and fixed.
I see there are 4.1k open issues, mostly reported websites.
The latest fixed and closed were last July.
Also, the latest ISDCAC add-on update for Firefox was last February, but I cannot tell if the add-on would need an update to function more properly.
I don't see many cookie pop-ups, but one reason could be that I use the EasyList/uBO Cookie Notices filter lists as well.

 

for firefox, available since v117, active since v119 (currently beta)
cookiebanners.service.mode
important to read: https://github.com/mozilla/cookie-banner-rules-list

currently used, only used to prefs
Consent-O-Matic

it uses an internal, updated, list like ublock.
also ublock lists got quick fixes against google/youtube consent which bothered me last week.

 

I assumed that it used some type of global method to get rid of these messages, but they actually have to be reported? It used to work just fine, but lately I feel like I'm getting to see more and more of those silly cookie alerts. It may be a coincidence, but I doubt it.

Word on the street is that the EU is planning to get rid of them for the most part. You will simply have to select a global setting in the browser, and then you won't be bothered again, because this is crazy stuff. But anyway, I have now enabled the EasyList/uBO Cookie Notices filter lists as well, forgot about this.

 

I hope this will improve your experience, compared to ISDCAC alone.

 

FWIW, I find these two generic rules added to uBO eliminate a lot of cookie banners missed by IDCAC list:

Code:

###onetrust-consent-sdk
##.ot-sdk-container

 

The first one is part of the EasyList Cookie Notices filter list (fanboy-cookiemonster).
I'm not sure if the second one is in some other filter list, and if so, which.

 

Yes, constant updates are required.
(note, that the majority of the open issues are duplicates (example))

It seems indeed abandoned now, which is a pity...
See also issue #6158 (no reply from maintainer).

Maybe I'll go back to IDCAC (recommended extension; rating 3.2 stars...)
By Gen Digital Inc., Kiko
(NortonLifeLock rebrands itself as Gen Digital)

So, it's still manually reviewed by Mozilla.

 

Thanks, will add them.

Too bad, so it's pretty much dead? But I won't go back to the old IDCAC because I don't trust them.

 

Then expect a growing number of sites showing cookie notices with ISDCAC...

If IDCAC were nefarious, Mozilla would remove it from their store.

From the addon page:

(the last line was probably added after all the bad publicity )

That said, I still keep an eye on ISDCAC to see if it revives.

 

I simply do not trust Avast anymore. I don't really care about if Mozilla thinks it trustworthy or not. And I have now also enabled certain anti-cookie alert lists in uBlock, so far no problems.

 

I tried the Firefox IDCAC add-on as a lark but had to uninstall it within 5 minutes because it broke barchart-dot-com, one of my most-used sites. I'm staying with PopUpOff and my own very small, curated cookie block list since I haven't been able to find a small mainstream cookie list that doesn't add 30,000+ cosmetic filters.