Cookie consent notices. You’ve seen them. You can’t not see them nowadays. They’re in every single place, on each web site, due to well-meaning authorized necessities. Sometimes blocking parts of the web page you need to work together with, in addition.

I might have tinkered with Chrome and Firefox (my essential two browsers) to nuke these annoyances, however an alternate browser first caught my eye. Brave blocks cookie consent notices by default. All I wanted to do was obtain an installer, run it, and hearth it up.

It works completely, and I’ve been having fun with the characteristic for months now. You can see it in impact on this Google I/O livestream web page:

Brave touts itself as a browser devoted to privateness and safety, and it positively delivers that out of the field—cross-site trackers routinely blocked, fingerprinting protection, scripts blocked, a built-in VPN. It additionally defaults to its own search engine and provides its personal video name platform (Brave Talk), too. And as a Chromium browser, you possibly can nonetheless customise it together with your favourite extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

I recognize that Brave gives these options and others, they usually’re extra causes to maintain utilizing the Browser as an everyday browser. But what acquired me within the door was that cookie consent blocking.

What should you don’t need to change to Brave? I extremely suggest giving the browser a shot, however you possibly can nonetheless get the same characteristic with somewhat gentle work. (And I ultimately acquired round to making use of this to Chrome and Firefox.)

You want the uBlock Origin ad-blocking extension put in (one among my must-have extensions for Chrome and different browsers). Click on its icon subsequent to your handle bar, then on the gears icon. If it’s not seen, click on on the puzzle piece icon subsequent to your handle bar, then the three-dot icon for uBlock Origin, and select Options.

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In the Filter Lists tab, search for the Annoyances drop down listing. Unfurl it, then examine the EasyList – Cookie Notices possibility. To save the change, click on on the Apply Changes button on the prime of the display. Now you’ll have the identical expertise on Brave—a minimum of for avoiding cookie consent notifications. 

To get that browser’s different privateness options, you’ll want so as to add extra extensions like NoScript, one for a dedicated VPN, and extra (or simply try Brave). If that’s not the one factor bothering you about your time on-line, you may also take a look at our listing of the best Chrome extensions that help you stay focused. A number of tweaks could make navigating the web a lot much less of a headache and extra productive.