Security News > 2022 > September > Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners
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 noticed an annoying cookie consent prompt asking if you would like to accept data-collecting cookies from our advertisers.
Brave will now proactively detect and block the cookie consent banners to deal with both of these issues, removing both a distraction and a potential privacy risk for users.
"New versions of Brave will hide-and, where possible, completely block-cookie consent notifications," mentions Brave's blog post.
Unlike other solutions, such as browser extensions, that auto-consent for a user or block prompts, Brave says they break the communication channel between the browser and the consent-tracking system.
"Cookie banners highlight how much worse the Web will get if Google succeed in weakening users' ability to block such annoyances," states Brave.