Apr 19, 2023 19:00:00

A feature that automatically rejects the annoying 'Please allow cookies' banner may soon appear in Firefox

In recent years, with the introduction of

the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU, the number of websites displaying a 'banner requesting consent to the use of cookies ' when accessed has increased. It's a hassle to have to erase it. Technology media gHacks reported that a function that automatically rejects cookie banners has been introduced in `` Firefox Nightly '', a development version of the web browser Firefox , and will soon appear in Firefox.

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically - gHacks Tech News
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/17/firefox-may-interact-with-cookie-prompts-automatically-soon/

Banners asking for consent to use cookies are often displayed on corporate websites. For example, when you access Dropbox's official website , you will see a banner to choose whether to accept or reject the use of cookies as shown below, and it will not disappear unless you click it.

Also, when you access

Volkswagen's official website , you will see a banner notifying you that you are using cookies as shown below, which will not disappear unless you click it. It's troublesome to have to delete the banners one by one when you want to browse the website, but Firefox Nightly has a function that allows you to delete them all at once.

To use the cookie banner auto-removal feature, you must first have Firefox Nightly installed. Go to

Mozilla's official distribution page and click 'Download' next to 'Nightly'. Since normal Firefox and Nightly, which is in the development stage, are independent, even people who have already installed Firefox can install Nightly.

Launch the downloaded installer.

Once installed, Nightly opened.

Click the menu icon on the top right and select Settings.

Click on 'Privacy and security' to open it, scroll down and you will see an item called 'Cookie banner reduction', you can check it. 'Cookie Banner Reduction' means that Nightly will automatically reject cookie consent prompts from banners on supported sites when possible.

This time, I actually installed Nightly and tried it, but at the time of writing the article, I could not confirm that 'cookie banner reduction' actually worked. gHacks says 'If there is no cookie option or Firefox does not detect the banner, keep showing the cookie prompt to allow manual intervention' 'Firefox's new cookie banner feature handles all cookie banners We don't, but we can automate some of the banners that users see as they browse the Internet.' It is unknown when the cookie banner reduction function installed in Nightly will appear in the stable version of regular Firefox.

If you want to eliminate cookie banners now, you can use extensions such as 'Consent-O-Matic' to eliminate banners and pop-ups that ask for consent to use cookies.

Browser extension ``Consent-O-Matic'' that prevents pop-ups such as ``Please allow cookies'' from being displayed automatically - GIGAZINE