How To Get Rid of Cookie Popups

One of the annoying consequences of the GDPR is the popups asking you if it’s okay to set cookies. Mostly, those cookies are used to track us and are something we definitely don’t want to enable. Sadly, some of those popups won’t go away until you consent to cookies and, worse, are modal so that they continue to block the text you’re trying to read.

Alain M. Lafon is not the only one to notice this problem but he found a solution and has a useful post that explains how to get rid of the popups. The TL;DR is that he uses uBlock to inhibit the popups and prevent tracking. The video with the post might lead you to believe that the solution works only for Firefox and Chromium but uBlock works with

  • Chromium
  • Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari

so the solution works on most browsers and regardless of what OS you’re using.

I’m not sure but I think that the latest Safari (Version 14.0) does essentially the same thing. It blocks trackers and provides a list of the trackers it blocked. Regardless, you can follow Lafon’s advice and install uBlock if you’re being bedeviled by popup cookie notices or worried about being tracked.

As I’ve said before, these people have no right to follow us around the Internet so don’t let them guilt you about blocking their tracking cookies. If they want to show us ads, they can stop the tracking.

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