In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will serve as the basis for the release of Firefox 114 on June 6, a setting has been introduced for the automatic closure of pop-up dialogs shown on websites to obtain confirmation for the ability to store identifiers in cookies in accordance with GDPR requirements. Since such pop-up banners distract attention, obscure content, and require user time to close, Firefox developers decided to embed the capability for automatic rejection of requests into the browser.
To enable the automatic response feature to requests, a new section called 'Cookie Banner Reduction' has appeared in the settings under the Security and Privacy section (about:preferences#privacy). Currently, the section only contains the toggle 'Reduce Cookie Banners', which, when selected, will prompt Firefox to reject requests to store identifiers in cookies on behalf of the user for a predefined list of sites.
For finer control, the parameters 'cookiebanners.service.mode' and 'cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing' are provided in about:config, where writing 0 disables the automatic closure of cookie banners; 1 always rejects authority requests and ignores banners that only allow consent; 2 rejects authority requests whenever possible, and when rejection is not feasible, consents to cookie storage. Unlike the similar mode offered in the Brave browser and ad blockers, Firefox does not hide the banner but automates the user's action with it. Two modes for processing banners are available — simulating mouse clicks (cookiebanners.bannerClicking.enabled) and injecting cookies with the selected mode flag (cookiebanners.cookieInjector.enabled).
Source: opennet.ru
