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Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
Add the extension A Chrome Extension Everyone can agree that cookie consent banners are frustrating. It might be one of the few unifying factors on the internet today. Even though it’s a couple clicks, the couple clicks are a pain, and the couple clicks can happen on many sites each day. There are browser extensions out there that will auto-accept cookies like I don’t care about cookies and it’s open source fork I still don’t care about cookies.
If you’re interested in how it works the code is open source and on github, but let’s step through it at a high level. Next on the implementation side of things, it started with a set of common selectors that could possibly be relevant to non-essential cookies. I opted to take a more targeted approach and aim the logic at specific cookie consent vendors that most sites seem to leverage.
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