Cookie banners
The Browser answers cookie consent banners with Reject for you.
When a site asks whether it can use cookies, the Browser answers for you, picking Reject or whichever choice shares the least. It never clicks Accept. This works whether the ad blocker is on or off.
The setting is Cookie banners in Settings → Privacy and security → Ads and trackers.
| Choice | What happens |
|---|---|
| Reject automatically (default) | Banners are answered with Reject. A banner it can't answer is hidden instead. |
| Hide only | Banners are hidden without an answer, so sites may ask again on your next visit. |
| Off | Sites show their banners and you answer them yourself. |
How it knows what to click
It recognizes around 250 consent platforms and sites, using the open rules from DuckDuckGo's autoconsent project, and the EasyList Cookie list for banners it can hide but not answer. It only clicks inside a known consent banner. It doesn't guess at buttons on the rest of the page, so sign-in and checkout forms aren't touched.
Everything runs on your computer.
Seeing what it did
Right-click a page. If the Browser handled a banner there, the menu shows Cookie banner rejected (or Cookie banner hidden). There's no popup or badge otherwise.
Leaving a site alone
If answering a banner breaks a site, right-click the page and uncheck Reject cookie banners on this site (Hide cookie banners on this site in Hide only). The page reloads and shows its banner. Check it again to go back.
Those sites are listed under Settings → Privacy and security → Sites that show cookie banners, where you can also add a site by address or Remove all. Each entry covers the site's subdomains. Sites listed under Sites that show ads are left alone too.
Limits
- A banner the rules don't know is hidden but not answered, so the site never hears your choice.
- With Reject automatically, a hidden banner that sat inside the page can leave an empty space where it was.