Ublock: [Feature Request] Fanboy's Cookiemonster List

Created on 3 May 2016 · 18Comments · Source: gorhill/uBlock

Fanboy recently created a separate Anti-Cookies List from his Annoyances List.
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt

I believe it is a better alternative to Prebake as it is updated frequently. It would be nice to add Fanboy's list to uBlock's list of filters.

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liracobopu

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_List already included in Annoyances List_

Well that makes it easy: no point adding that CookieMonster list then.

gorhill on 5 May 2016

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Better than this http://www.kiboke-studio.hr/i-dont-care-about-cookies/abp/ ?

gwarser on 3 May 2016

For requests regarding filter lists et al. :

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets

If you want to add a custom list, you can already do that,
on the 3rd party filter lists tab..

Hrxn on 4 May 2016

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In any case these are the differences:

I don't care about cookies‎ list = 7200 filters;
Cookiemonster list = 2100 filters;
Prebake list = 850 filters.

happysurf on 5 May 2016

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I declined to add _I don't care about cookies‎_ because the author advise to install his own extension to use the list.

Now, I wonder how much _Cookimonster_ and _Prebake_ intersects. Also, would _Cookiemonster_ qualify as a "EU" list, or is it completely generic (in which case I have no idea in which category it would fit).

gorhill on 5 May 2016

In the past you declined the Block-EU-Cookie-Shit-List‎.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/103
Is this any different?

ghost on 5 May 2016

This is the Cookiemonster list description by the author:
"_This will remove cookie and privacy warnings (List already included in Annoyances List, don't add list if you're using the Annoyances List)_" , for that I think could replace the poor EU Prebake list.
Actually now I have only Cookiemonster enabled (with I don't care about cookies list disabled) for testing and it looks good.

happysurf on 5 May 2016

_List already included in Annoyances List_

Well that makes it easy: no point adding that CookieMonster list then.

gorhill on 5 May 2016

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Unfortunately the Annoyances List blocks also element in the pages like the RSS - Feed important for me and maybe for other users.
Therefore could be useful have an efficient separate cookie filter list.

happysurf on 6 May 2016

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@gorhill Based on your argument, then remove Social Blocking since it is included in Annoyances, or remove the separate EasyList, EasyPrivacy lists because they're already included in Fanboy Ultimate.

Like @happysurf I find Annoyances List to block too many things. Killing the annoying and sometimes obtrusive cookie notices is all I really care for.

If you did decide to add the list, I would classify it as an EU list as these annoying cookie notices are a direct result of EU law. If you simply scanned the list yourself, you'd see that most are european-based domains/companies or multinational companies.

Oh well. I just wanted to add the list because on Android for Firefox, it is much easier to check the lists I want than manually add a list.

liracobopu on 8 May 2016

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Is there a clear winner between "Prebake", "EU cookie shit" and "Fanboy's Cookiemonster"?
(search "cookie" on filterlists.com to quickly get the relevant links)

"Prebake" hasn't been updated for a year, "I don't care about cookies" is ruled out, "EU cookie shit" seems quite small.

Therefore remains "Fanboy's Cookiemonster", to replace "Prebake".

vlakoff on 21 Jun 2017

You are right but there is an other great alternative, Adguard Annoyances Filter that works great on cookie notifications.

Cookiemonster list = 2100 filters;
Adguard Annoyances Filter = 7200 filters.

List:
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/chromium/filters/14.txt

Description:
Blocks irritating elements on webpages, including cookie notices, third-party widgets and in-page popups (Doesn’t include social media widgets and buttons, to block them you can still use Social media filter separately). It was inspired by Fanboy Annoyances List, but doesn’t duplicate it, so you can use them both together.

happysurf on 21 Jun 2017

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After having tested "Fanboy's Cookiemonster" for a few days, I still got a handful of cookies banners.

Guess I'll just switch back to "I don't care about cookies" which was doing the job really fine. But this time I won't use the separate extension, I'll add its list to uBlock, for performances reasons.

vlakoff on 30 Jun 2017

I think Adguard Annoyances Filter is not appropriate as a Cookie List because it do so much more.h

I'd like to suggest block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list with currently 1152 filters.

heubergen on 13 Jul 2017

I tried all the mentioned lists, including "I don't care about cookies", and I am still getting a lot of banners.

When I was using "I don't care about cookies" as a separate extension, I was almost never getting banners. Does the separate extension block more stuff?

vlakoff on 14 Jul 2017

just a guess but maybe the addon adds cookies to the browser to shut up the websites