BannerBye

Now available · Chrome · Firefox · Safari for iPhone & iPad

Cookie banners, killed.
Before they load.

Install once. BannerBye refuses every banner — automatically, legally, everywhere you browse.

Free on Chrome & Firefox · €1.99 on iPhone & iPad. Also works on Edge and Brave.

google.com

Poof. Every banner, every site, without a click.

The problem

Same question. Every site. Every time.

You've already made your choice. The web keeps pretending it doesn't know — same banner, same hidden reject button, same interruption, thousands of times a year. Clear your cookies and the whole carousel starts over. Open a different device, same thing. It's not consent anymore. It's muscle memory.

1,020

Cookie banners the average internet user clicks through in a year. Every one of them asks a question you've already answered.

76%

Of users who dismiss the banner without reading it — usually by tapping "Accept all" just to make it stop. That's not consent. That's exhaustion.

72%

Of cookie banners use dark patterns — reject hidden, accept pre-selected, layouts designed to tire you into saying yes.

Data: Advance Metrics (2023); Nouwens et al., CHI 2020; European Commission behavioural study, 2022.

How it works

One preference. Every site. Done.

1

Install once

Add BannerBye to your browser. Pick what you share, what you don't. Takes about ten seconds.

2

Browse anywhere

Banners disappear before they render. No flash, no click, no dark pattern. Just the page you came for.

3

Stay private

Your preference lives on your device. Not in our cloud. Not in anyone's analytics. Open source, auditable, yours.

AI-driven · self-improving

Most blockers go stale. BannerBye gets sharper.

Websites rewrite their cookie banners constantly. Most blockers fall behind — you install one, and months later it quietly stops working. BannerBye works the other way. It catches what slips through, Anthropic's Claude checks the fix, and the improvement ships to everyone. By itself.

Step 1

Caught

A site sneaks a new banner past BannerBye. The system spots it and flags it — no bug report from you needed.

Step 2 · Claude

Reviewed by Claude

Anthropic's Claude reads the fix and decides whether it's safe to trust. Clear wins ship. Anything doubtful waits for a human. The gatekeeper never guesses.

Step 3

Live within hours

Approved fixes roll out to everyone automatically. Nothing to update, nothing to click. It just keeps working.

AI-driven, reviewed by Claude — a cookie killer that gets smarter on its own.

What makes it different

Not another click-hider. A new default.

Legal, not loud

We send the signals regulators wrote into law. Sites have to listen. No clever hacks that break next week.

Open by default

Every rule, every line of code, public on GitHub. If you don't trust it, fork it.

Zero tracking

We don't know which sites you visit. We can't. The extension never phones home with your browsing.

Everywhere you are

Chrome and Firefox on desktop, Safari on iPhone and iPad. One preference, every screen.

The alternatives

Most banner tools hide.
BannerBye refuses.

The others dismiss the banner after it already reached you. BannerBye works one step earlier — it tells the site you've already said no, so the banner never loads at all.

BannerBye Consent-O-Matic I don't care about cookies Super Agent
How it works Prevents banner Auto-clicks Hides with CSS Auto-clicks
Self-improving, AI-vetted
Sends legal GPC signal
Open source & auditable Partial
Zero telemetry
One preference, every browser Partial Partial Partial
Free, no account

Based on publicly available extension documentation and source code, April 2026.

Questions

Things you might wonder.

My browser already has privacy settings. Why do I need BannerBye? +

Browsers can block cookies, but cookie banners are the prompts asking for consent — not the cookies themselves. Block cookies and you'll still see 50 banners a day.

Firefox has a "Cookie Banner Reduction" feature, but it only covers a small list of sites in Strict mode. Chrome and Safari have nothing built in. "Do Not Track" is a deprecated header that virtually no site respects anymore.

BannerBye works on every site through three legally recognised signals: the GPC header, the IAB TCF reject string, and a pattern-based auto-click for custom banners. The banner never renders in the first place.

Doesn't Safari already block this with Private Browsing or "Block pop-ups"? +

No. Safari's built-in privacy features are defensive — they limit cookies, hide trackers, and wipe history. None of them prevent cookie banners from appearing.

  • Private Browsing wipes cookies after you close the tab, but you still see every banner while browsing.
  • Block pop-ups stops JavaScript pop-up windows. Cookie banners are overlay-modals inside the page — different beast.
  • Prevent Cross-Site Tracking limits how sites follow you, but doesn't change what they ask you.
  • Block All Cookies doesn't hide banners; sites still display them. And many sites break (no login, no cart).
  • Hide Distracting Items (iOS 18+) lets you manually hide a banner per site, but Safari doesn't tell the site you said no — which leaves a legal gray area.

BannerBye works one level above all of this. It sends a legal "no" via GPC and IAB TCF before the page renders. The banner never has to appear, and the site knows your answer.

Safari makes tracking harder. BannerBye makes the asking stop.

Does BannerBye see what websites I visit? +

No. The extension reads the page in your browser only to find cookie banners. Nothing is sent to our servers — except the hostname when you tap "Report broken site," and only then.

The full source code is open and auditable on GitHub: github.com/BannerBye/BannerBye. Search the repo for "tracker" or "analytics" — you won't find any.

Will it work on every website? +

It handles the vast majority of cookie banners through three independent layers: GPC (legally binding in several US states), IAB TCF reject (used by most major European publishers), and a pattern-based auto-click for custom banners.

For the rare site where it doesn't work, one tap on "Report broken site" in the popup tells us. Our daily-updated rule list reaches every user within hours — no extension update needed.

What is GPC? +

Global Privacy Control. A web standard that tells every site you visit: "I do not consent to the sale or sharing of my data." It's legally binding in California, Connecticut, and Colorado, and increasingly enforced across the EU.

BannerBye adds the GPC header to every outgoing request your browser makes. You set your preference once. No clicks needed.

Is it really free? +

Yes. Free, no account, no ads, no upsell. The extension is MIT-licensed open source.

If we ever introduce paid features, the core (killing cookie banners on every site) will always stay free.

Does it work on mobile? +

iPhone and iPad: yes, via Safari (App Store). Android: yes on Firefox via the Mozilla add-on. Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions — that's a Google limitation, not ours.

Can I set BannerBye to accept cookies instead of rejecting them? +

No — by design. BannerBye is a privacy tool, not a consent-automation tool. We always reject because that's what makes us a privacy tool in the first place.

If you'd rather always accept: don't install BannerBye. Just click "OK" on banners like you already do — your browser already defaults to accept-friendly behaviour. Automating "accept" via an extension is also legally questionable under GDPR, since consent has to be freely given.

There is no toggle in the popup. The choice is made at install: install BannerBye, and your consent preference is set to "reject" for every site, forever.

Why does Safari say BannerBye can read my passwords? +

That's Apple's standard warning for every Safari extension that needs access to page content. It describes what the extension is technically capable of, not what BannerBye actually does. Chrome and Firefox show similar warnings for the same reason.

BannerBye reads the page structure to find cookie banners and clicks "Reject all." It does not read passwords, credit cards, or browsing history. Full breakdown on the privacy page.

Still wondering? Email hello@bannerbye.com.

Get BannerBye

Bye bye
cookie banners.

Add it to your browser. Set your privacy once. Then forget cookie banners exist.

No account. No tracking. Free on Chrome and Firefox.