If you live in Europe, you should now be accustomed to the cookie banners that appear on the websites when you visit them for the first time. Clicking on the "Accept" button of these banners has become a reflex and often we don't even take the time to read what is written on these banners since we are in a hurry to access the content of the site.
And since in any way, we only systematically click on "Accept", the Opera browser thinks that a feature that blocks cookie banners might find a lessee.
The company that offers this mobile browser has just released a new beta version. And as our colleague Android Police notes, this one includes a new feature that blocks cookie banners. The feature is included in the blocking of advertisements (for the reminder, Opera has already developed its native adblocker) and also offers an option to automatically give consent to the use of cookies.
Depending on this setting, Opera's cookie ribbon blocker could have two different effects. If the option to automatically accept cookies is checked, then the user will browse the Web as it was before the RGPD. However, if it does not check this option, it will disable the use of default cookies.
This approach is quite curious. But it should be noted that it is possible to access the site of a faster website (for example, by compressing the data). The interaction with these cookie banners is an obstacle when a user wants to quickly access an article or page.