Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners
marius@feddit.org 6 days ago
It’s nice, but sometimes it breaks websites. Some sites don’t work if you don’t click on the banner first. So if you encounter a website that seems frozen, try disabing uBlock for a second
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
i don’t think you need to school ublock users ;)
fireweed@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve installed ublock on the phones of some very non-techie older adults in my life, specifically because they’re non-techie and never would have even known ublock existed otherwise. Granted these folks are definitely not on Lemmy either, but point is there’s a wide range of users out there
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
i get that point, but do you think these people scroll lemmy to get this advice?
i don’t do unsolicited installs of ublock or any other extension exactly for this reason, because they will run into issue unable to handle it. and then next time, you see them using google chrome instead of the firefox you have fine-tuned for them, because “something was not working” and it did work in chrome 🤷♂️
fireweed@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean, it’s not like it’s a time-consuming thing to do. I haven’t checked in with everyone, but at least one person is still using the setup two years later and is grateful for it so I call that a win. But my original point was about not making assumptions that people who use ublock are going to be tech savvy.