You Can Block Those Annoying Cookie Banners on Every Website
They might be legally required, but they're also blocking everything you want to read.
By Pranay Parab
There’s a long list of things that make browsing the internet feel like living in a dystopian hellscape, and annoying cookie banners and consent forms are right at the top of that list. Most websites are legally required to display these notices and take your consent for using cookies. However, it also blocks a big chunk of the website you’re trying to read. Let’s fix this on all of your devices.
Block cookie banners on desktop
No matter what platform you’re using, you can easily install a browser extension to block cookie notices. Super Agent is a free extension that works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It’s built to automatically get rid of cookie banners and will come through for almost all the websites you visit. The extension’s preferences page allows you to customize which cookies you want to accept and which ones you want to reject. This is a key feature: You don’t want to use an add-on that automatically accepts all cookies on every websites you go to.
If you’d rather not install a dedicated extension for this purpose, you can use uBlock Origin as an alternative. It blocks a long list of annoyances by default, but you have to manually enable its cookie-notice blocking list. Click the uBlock Origin icon and go to Settings > Filter lists > Annoyances. Enable EasyList Cookie to hide cookie banners.
Be aware that automatically blocking cookie notices could prevent some websites from loading altogether, which is why you can consider using uBlock Origin’s element hiding feature instead. When you see a cookie notice on any website, you can click the uBlock Origin extension icon from the browser’s toolbar, and select the eyedropper icon.
This enters the element-picker mode: Hover the mouse cursor over the cookie notice till the entire banner is selected, click it once, and select Create Filter in the pop-up window. You may have to do this manually on multiple websites, but it’s a one-time effort for each website you visit and only takes a few clicks.
Block cookie banners on iPhone and iPad
As long as your iPhone and iPad are updated to iOS 15, you can use some great Safari extensions to block annoyances on the web. However, Super Agent is still the best cookie-notice handler for iPhone and iPad. It lets the cookie banner load and automatically accepts or rejects cookies based on your preferences. This takes a second or so after the website loads, but you don’t have to do anything after enabling the extension.
Block cookie banners on Android
If you use Firefox on Android, you can install the browser add-on for uBlock Origin to block cookie notices on all websites. If you don’t, your best bet is to use an ad-blocker like AdGuard for Android, which also blocks cookie banners on various websites. The unfortunate truth is that these types of apps are not allowed on Google Play, so you may have to sideload it on your phone.
https://lifehacker.com/you-can-block-those-annoying-cookie-banners-on-every-we-1848936142
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How Many Websites Now Have Cookie Banners?
A “cookie banner” refers to a pop-up notice on a website that discusses the site’s use of cookies. There is little standardization concerning how cookie banners are deployed. For example, websites can position them in different places on the screen (e.g., across the top of the screen, across the bottom of the screen, in a corner of the screen, or centered on the screen). Cookie banners also…
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okay so basically i have this whole tradition of making a banner for the new year and featuring characters and stuff from the the previous year that made it super epic and basically were emotional support or whatever
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Herb and sparkling deserve more love, so can I get herb and sparkling with an S/O that loves to create things? Like, we would do wood work, pottery, clay, painting, ect. And always bring them back gifts?
(This can be together or separate!)
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You and Herb Cookie probably trade gifts at least once a day, if not more. He gives you beautiful plants, and in return, you give him new pots, new shelves for more plants, anything!
He always expresses to you how grateful he is for all these things. Sometimes, he'll even go out of his way to find you a more rare plant to show his appreciation.
Once, you made him a custom plant pot with his favorite plants on it. He nearly cried.
You're a glassblower, so often times you'll make him new types of glasses for his bar. He's always very grateful, and he often gets you gifts because of this.
It warms Sparkling Cookie's heart, knowing that you're making these especially for him. Even if they're to be used for his business, you still make them for him in the end.
You made him a custom wine bottle once, and he cried receiving it. He gave you whatever you asked for for a while.
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