floppy,
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> "Stack Overflow requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load."

unable to close intrusive cookie banner

Excuse me?

I didn't expect that they would actually start playing that game, but it takes two to tango and I refuse.

#StackOverflow #Cookie #Cookies #DarkPattern #DarkPatterns

floppy,
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does not allow closing the cookie banner due to externally loaded (and commonly blocked) Javascript.

Workaround for and until somebody suggests a suitable browser extension:

  1. Ctrl+Shift+C to open the browser's and enter element selection mode.

  2. Click on the black part of the cookie banner (to select all of it and not just a part).

  3. With the tree view of HTML elements focused, press delete on the keyboard to remove the cookie banner.

yakkoj,
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@floppy ha... I'd been using UBO to get rid of that thing.

The very annoying part is that this banner is a DIFFERENT element ID for each stackoverflow site.

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