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The road to hell is paved with good intentions — or, as you may call them, “cookie pop-ups.” The warnings have scarred the internet since the EU made them mandatory for most sites. Lawmakers were ...

The global influence of the EU’s cookie laws is due for a revamp later this year. Cookies hold visitor information for websites and are crucial for some basic functions, like remembering your username ...

The EU may have brought freedoms, peace, and wealth to millions of people, but all those benefits have been nullified by one horrendous drawback: cookie pop-ups. Quite struck on this visit how ...

The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit. If you visited BleepingComputer from Europe, you may have ...

Cookies are files created by websites when you visit them. They can be somewhat helpful, as they save your browsing information, and they allow sites you use often to keep you signed in, remember your ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Cookie banners are one of the most annoying parts of browsing the web, forcing you ...

There’s a long list of things that make browsing the internet feel like living in a dystopian hellscape, and annoying cookie banners and consent forms are right at the top of that list. Most websites ...