The builders behind Courageous Browser have introduced that it’s going to start to dam cookie consent discover popups that negatively affect looking expertise for a lot of customers.

In an replace, the nameless browser’s Privateness Updates weblog referred to as cookie consent an “notorious and near-constant annoyance”, whereas citing an instructional examine (opens in new tab) that discovered many browser popups monitor customers throughout the web no matter their alternative.

Customers of the most recent Nightly department (and model 1.45 when it releases in October) will solely need to click on “sure” on a dialog field on start-up to dam all cookie consent popups, utilizing a algorithm and filters that may look acquainted to those that use internet browser advert blocking extensions.

Preventing again in opposition to Google’s privateness modifications 

Courageous cited Google’s newest raft of proposed modifications to Chrome as the explanation why an open internet, and content-blocking instruments, have to be fought for, beginning with blocking cookie consent popups.

These modifications embody its upcoming swap to the Manifest V3 API, the plan to consolidate web sites into single information through a brand new customary named WebBundles (opens in new tab) and the Privateness Sandbox initiative (opens in new tab) it has in growth.

“The Internet is constructed to be open. On the one hand, that’s nice: It means privacy-protecting Internet instruments like Courageous can act on behalf of customers, and defend them from Internet abuses and annoyances. Alternatively, cookie banners spotlight how a lot worse the Internet will get if Google (and others) reach weakening customers’ capacity to dam such annoyances,” Courageous stated in its announcement (opens in new tab).

Courageous has lengthy warned that these new initiatives are literally on the right track to scale back consumer privateness on-line, by reducing the effectiveness of present advert blocking extensions (opens in new tab) and decreasing the selection customers have over their internet browser.

In January 2022, the corporate particularly dismissed (opens in new tab) Google’s Privateness Sandbox as an influence play designed to cement the tech large’s stranglehold on the net, partly due to its use of Google’s personal servers and promotion of the “AppStore-ification” of the web.

“[…] a cynical proposal adopting simply sufficient of the language and colours of the privateness group to maintain regulators at bay, whereas in observe benefitting Google’s monopoly, all to the detriment of the Internet at massive,” it stated.

With Courageous submitting its issues about Google’s reforms to the UK Competitors and Markets Authority (opens in new tab) (CMA), it’s clear that an open internet dedicated to privateness nonetheless has its proponents and gained’t be taking place with no struggle.

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