[Narushia]

My additional recommendations:

1. You don't need a separate browser extension for blocking cookie notices, Ublock Origin can do that just fine. You just need to enable the cookie notice filters in the settings (they are disabled by default).

2. AdAway on Android allows network-level blocking without resorting to a VPN (it's based on /etc/hosts). Though it does require root.

[nottorp]

But Consent-O-Matic doesn't just block cookie notices, it clicks on the appropriate buttons to deny them first for the major kinds of cookie dialogs.

[encom]

I refuse to engage with them on principle and will not signal denial or acceptance, because doing so would legitimise this farcical, dilettante excuse for a government "solution".

[nottorp]

It's not a government solution. All they have to do is not track you.

Private industry invented these dialogs in the hope that you'll be too tired to deny anything.

[encom]

I get the point you're trying to make, but it absolutely is a government solution, because it was obvious to anyone that this would be the result. And there has been nothing done to remedy or even admit their failure. Asking big tech nicely not to be evil has never worked. Besides, there are plenty of cases where websites without tracking have the popups anyway, just to be on the safe side from the wrath of EU bureaucracy.

[MarsIronPI]

Isn't the point of the notices that you have to explicitly agree to them for the site to be allowed to track you? Wouldn't never accepting be equivalent to rejecting?

[nottorp]

Some of them still come preset to accept all.

[MarsIronPI]

Is that legal per the GDPR?

[esperent]

The problem with ad blocker apps on Android is that they always require a either a VPN, in which cases my banking apps don't work, or root, which is getting harder and harder to get and probably also breaks my banking apps.

However, I have found that using NextDNS as a private DNS server works and doesn't cause any problems like this.

[Zak]

I'm still having good results with root, Magisk, and Play Integrity Fix. That does involve some knowledge and effort though, so what I point others to is Mullvad DNS, which is free: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

Don't forget to give apps that fuck with you in the name of security 1-star reviews!

[esperent]

> Mullvad DNS

This works the same way as NextDNS on Android but is less customizeable.

[Zak]

True, but it doesn't require an account, and is free for unlimited use. Not having to sign up for anything is a plus when I'm recommending things to others.

[penguin_booze]

> You just need to enable the cookie notice filters in the settings

I didn't know it existed. FWIW, it's under Settings > Filter lists > Cookie notices.