> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

It's a compliance thing. It's worse if you're in the EU, but the internet is global so it affects everybody, these days.

The old uBlockOrigin (which Google depreciated) had an auto-decline, so I didn't see one of those cookie banners for years... the new Lite version, however, doesn't seem to have that feature.

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Elfener 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> which Google depreciated

The Firefox version works just fine.

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chistev 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought you only need to do that for tracking cookies?

If you have essential cookies that need to remember what a user saved to their shopping cart, if they want dark or light mode, their login session, do you need them to consent?

	▲	suddenlybananas 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's because all of these sites have stuff to track you and cookies is one of the ways you can do that.

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nicbou 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AdGuard is also very effective on Safari for iOS.