How to stop cookie pop-ups in Chrome

Cookie banners appear because privacy laws require sites to ask before setting optional cookies. You can't make sites stop asking, but you can stop answering by hand. Here are the two ways that work.

1. Block third-party cookies in Chrome

1. Open Chrome and go to Settings.
2. Click Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies.
3. Choose Block third-party cookies.

This stops advertisers following you from site to site. It does not make the banners go away, because sites still have to ask about their own cookies.

2. Let an extension reject them for you

Fine Print Guard is a free Chrome extension that answers cookie banners automatically. When a banner appears, it clicks Reject all. If there is no such button, it opens the settings panel and switches every optional category off.

• It only ever rejects. It has no code that clicks Accept.
• Every banner it answers comes with an Undo, so you can bring it back.
• It also blocks ads, pop-ups and trackers, and sends the Global Privacy Control "do not sell my data" signal.

A tip: keep the category that stores your language and region. It doesn't track you, and turning it off makes sites forget your settings. Fine Print Guard keeps it by default and lets you change that.