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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

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332 points vegasbrianc | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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coldpie ◴[14 Nov 24 22:44 UTC] No.42141996[source]▶
Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there.

If you're on iOS, the Kill Sticky bookmarklet does a decent job of cleaning these up without breaking most sites: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

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tonymet ◴[14 Nov 24 22:45 UTC] No.42142012[source]▶
content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources, and no longer works in Chrome, which is the primary browser.
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1. consteval ◴[15 Nov 24 20:16 UTC] No.42150460[source]▶
> content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources

I don't have the evidence with me, but from what I've seen content-based blocking actually saves resources, both load times and memory. It's because Ads are not actually free or even cheap, you have to make a third-party request, load some content and JavaScript. So, if you spend a little to find and block those requests, you end up saving resources on average.