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I've also been enjoying "I don't care about cookies" extension.
Please don't hang me up on this, but I'm pretty sure that "I don't care about cookies" defaults to accepting some/all cookies, while ublock blocks them.
Both get rid of the banners, but if you also want to get rid of the cookies themselves, then ublock might be better.
Edit: Or rather ublock blocks the banner, which means that the site can't legally put a cookie on your PC.
That's correct, it basically is a convenience to get to the site and does nothing for privacy. Also the developer sold out to Avast.
If you want something like this, what you want is https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies which is a fork without the Avast bs
Well, TIL.
I thought it just hid all of them without accepting. Should've read thoroughly.
Considering the name of this community I feel like it is safe to assume that folk around here do care about cookies. An extension that randomly consents to tracking is the opposite of a solution.