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In case you didn't know, the "I don't care about cookies" extension was recently sold to Avast. I don't know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn't want to trust them and uninstalled it
Oh, well, that's too bad. Thank you for pointing this out!
Apparently, there is now a debloated fork "I still don't care about cookies"
https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
So what would you recommend to replace it?
You could try Consent-O-Matic. That’s what I use. It also doesn’t simply agree to everything like the other one but chooses the most privacy-friendly option instead.
Ublock Origin has annoyance filters that you can enable.
Does this work for you? I have that filter enabled but it doesn't really catch everything.
Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.
Ublock origin has additional filters that block these. Check out the settings.