“It does whatever is possible to get rid of cookie related popups, presuming that users protect themselves by using other tools, extensions and browser settings,” Kladnik explains. If the blocker has found the JavaScript files in question, their execution is prevented. Its purpose is to simply get rid of the popups and in most cases it blocks or hides cookie popups, creator Daniel Kladnik says. The blocker detects entire code blocks that open new windows when the page is accessed without the user have given a command by clicking on a button or a link. More than 500,000 people are using it on Chrome but it won’t necessarily protect your privacy in the same way as the examples above. ABP features a quick setup, loading preset filter lists that allow. The most popular cookie blocker out there is ‘I don’t care about cookies,’ which has been around since 2012. AdBlock Plus (ABP) is among the most popular ad blockers, with extensions available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge and Opera. Both Privac圜loud and NinjaCookie say they don’t collect data on your behaviour. While it isn’t open-source and has a premium tier there are also extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Opera. NinjaCookie does a similar thing and rejects cookies by default. “The tool looks for the most common cookie banner formats and removes them,” Maldonado says. The system declines all cookies where it is possible to do so and flags if a website doesn’t respect your choices.

Maldonado’s Privac圜loud has created a similar open-source extension: Consent Manager ( Chrome, Firefox, GitHub).

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