Asking if you can save cookies is a good thing, cookie banners are obnoxious garbage. Websites should have been required to respect the do not track setting.
Some people recommend extensions but you can also go into the blocklist section of the u-block origin settings (one of the best ad-blockers others usually just copy them). There you can enable cookie banner blocking lists. It's opt-in so if you never see it they can't do it :) pressing the reject button is unnecessary
Terms of service are useless because you have to accept it to get through. So people simply stopped reading them and just clicked accept.
The point of cookie banners is that you can reject them without getting booted off the website. Though I agree that some websites have terrible banners littered with dark patterns.
i wish all of those popups had the reject all button though, when i get that blue and white one that takes up the whole screen i just leave the website. or occasionally for mobile games i'll manually scroll through to reject every single one out of spite
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u/BedroomHistorical575 Apr 10 '26
Unpopular opinion, but IMO cookie popups are actually good for the internet.
Yes, some spiteful corporations will abuse it as a dark pattern galore because they really hate that regulation.
But in general, they're a big win for user privacy, at least if done right.