Are you tired of every website demanding that you ‘accept all cookies’? You can learn how to get rid of annoying cookie banners and reclaim a smoother Browse experience. Instead of manually clicking ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ on every site, you can use a browser extension that handles these pop-ups for you automatically, based on your preferences.
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🍪 Why Cookie Banners Are Everywhere
Cookie banners exist because of privacy regulations like the GDPR in Europe, which require websites to get your consent before storing non-essential cookies on your device. While this is a win for privacy, it has led to the frustrating user experience of ‘consent fatigue,’ where users are constantly interrupted by pop-ups. These banners often use confusing designs, or ‘dark patterns,’ to nudge you into accepting all cookies rather than making a more private choice.
🛠️ How to Install a Consent-Management Extension
The best way to combat this is with a browser extension designed to manage these requests for you. One of the most popular and effective tools for this is ‘I don’t care about cookies’, which is available for most major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Another excellent, privacy-focused alternative is Consent-O-Matic. To install one, simply visit your browser’s extension store (like the Chrome Web Store), search for the extension by name, and click ‘Add to browser’.
⚙️ How to Configure the Extension for Your Privacy
Once installed, these extensions work mostly automatically in the background. ‘I don’t care about cookies’ will, in most cases, simply accept the cookies to hide the banner. For more granular control, an extension like Consent-O-Matic allows you to set your preferences once. You can tell it to automatically reject all non-essential marketing and tracking cookies on every website you visit. It will then interact with the cookie banners on your behalf, applying your choices without you ever having to see the pop-up.
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“Get Rid of Annoying Cookie Banners.” Computer Active, no. 716, 13-26 Aug. 2025, p. 50.
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