This one Brave feature sold me on the whole browser

Cookie consent notices. You’ve seen them. You can’t not see them nowadays. They’re all over the place, on each web site, due to well-meaning authorized necessities. Sometimes blocking components of the web page you need to work together with, in addition.

I might have tinkered with Chrome and Firefox (my major two browsers) to nuke these annoyances, however another browser first caught my eye. Brave blocks cookie consent notices by default. All I wanted to do was obtain an installer, run it, and fireplace it up.

It works completely, and I’ve been having fun with the feature for months now. You can see it in impact on this Google I/O livestream web page:

Brave touts itself as a browser devoted to privateness and safety, and it undoubtedly delivers that out of the field—cross-site trackers mechanically blocked, fingerprinting safety, scripts blocked, a built-in VPN. It additionally defaults to its personal search engine and affords its personal video name platform (Brave Talk), too. And as a Chromium browser, you possibly can nonetheless customise it along with your favourite extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

I admire that Brave supplies these options and others, and so they’re further causes to maintain utilizing the Browser as an everyday browser. But what acquired me in the door was that cookie consent blocking.

What if you happen to don’t need to swap to Brave? I extremely suggest giving the browser a shot, however you possibly can nonetheless get an analogous feature with just a little gentle work. (And I finally acquired round to making use of this to Chrome and Firefox.)

You want the uBlock Origin ad-blocking extension put in (one of my must-have extensions for Chrome and different browsers). Click on its icon subsequent to your deal with bar, then on the gears icon. If it’s not seen, click on on the puzzle piece icon subsequent to your deal with bar, then the three-dot icon for uBlock Origin, and select Options.

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In the Filter Lists tab, search for the Annoyances drop down listing. Unfurl it, then verify the EasyList – Cookie Notices possibility. To save the change, click on on the Apply Changes button at the prime of the display screen. Now you’ll have the similar expertise on Brave—a minimum of for avoiding cookie consent notifications. 

To get that browser’s different privateness options, you’ll want so as to add extra extensions like NoScript, one for a devoted VPN, and extra (or simply strive Brave). If that’s not the solely factor bothering you about your time on-line, you can even take a look at our listing of the greatest Chrome extensions that allow you to keep targeted. Just a few tweaks could make navigating the web a lot much less of a headache and extra productive.

Author: Alaina Yee, Senior Editor