Since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation in May 2018, it is mandatory for websites that collect your information through cookies to share this in a policy. An example is a privacy or cookie policy.
Some people find it annoying to keep accepting cookie notifications from different websites. On some websites, the cookie policy even goes so far as to ask for approval per type of cookie, for example, social media cookies, advertising cookies and tracking cookies.
In this article, I will present you two ways through which you can disable the “This website uses cookies” etc. notification. The message about cookies is no longer displayed. It doesn't work on all web pages.
Disable or delete “This website uses cookies” notifications
I don't care about cookies browser extension
There is a browser extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera to hide cookie notifications. This I don't care about cookies browser extension designed by Daniel Kladnik, hides most cookie notifications displayed on websites.
Below is an image as tested on tweakers.net. In one window you will not see a cookie message, but in the second window you will see a cookie message. The browser extension works fine on this website. The I don't care about cookies extension also causes no problems with interaction on the website, which is also nice.
The disadvantage of this browser extension is that the I don't care about cookies browser extension regularly shows advertisements to keep the browser extension free. A commonly reported issue with the “I don't care about cookies” browser extension to disable cookie notifications.
If you want to exclude certain websites, i.e. show a cookie message in your web browser, you can access this option by clicking on the I don't care about cookies icon in Chrome, Firefox (or other browser). browser extension.
A context menu will then open with the options to exclude websites (whitelist) or to remove the extension if necessary.
Again, a useful browser extension to hide cookie notifications, but it does support ads, which may come as a surprise to some users because they assume they are blocking ads and cookie notifications.
Prebake an AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin cookie filter list
Prebake is a project that has compiled (and maintains) a filter list of websites that display cookie notifications. It is important to note that this lists cookie notifications by default accepts. This means that no notification will be displayed, but you will automatically agree to the placing of cookies on the relevant websites in the list.
Before you proceed with this, it is good to know what cookies mean and why cookies are placed on your device. I will not go into that in this article, but it is true that many websites that recommend this filter list called Prebake do not inform their visitors about this.
Add prebake cookie filter to Adblock Plus
Of course you serve first AdBlock Plus install a browser extension to block ads in your web browser. AdBlock Plus is available for the following web browsers across devices; Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Yandex and Maxthon.
Now go to the prebake.eu website and click on the subscribe link. AdBlock Plus detects the cookie filter, and displays a notification to use the filter list.
Add prebake cookie filter to uBlock Origin
Of course you serve first uBlock Origin to install. uBlock Origin is a browser extension to block ads in your web browser. uBlock Origin is available for the following web browsers across devices; Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, and possibly more.
In addition, uBlock Origin has been tested as least intensive on the CPU.
Now go to the prebake.eu website and click on the subscribe link. uBlock Origin detects the Prebake cookie filter, and displays a notification to use the filter list.
You can disable cookie notifications in your web browser in these two ways. I hope to have helped you.