How to remove Stack Exchange cookie consent popup with Stylem
![Cookie consent popup. Image of annoying popup](images/se_popup.jpg)
This is just a quick guide on how to remove the cookie consent popup from Stack Exchange sites. I’ll probably remove this guide or re-label it in the future since it will eventually become irrelevant.
Typically these popups aren’t so bad, but this one covers things up and gets in the way. I have cookie settings to clear out upon browser exit, so it’s annoying having to re-consent to the these popups every time I happen to use any Stack Exchange site.
With the Stylem browser extension[1] for Pale Moon (and other style editing related browser extensions out there), you can disable the popup.
Create custom user style
Open the Add-ons Manager of your browser. If Stylem is installed, you should see in the add-on manager overview an option for "User Styles."
![User styles User styles image](images/stylem_user_styles.bmp)
From the user styles overview, click on the "Write New Style" button.
![User styles overview User styles overview image](images/stylem_overview.bmp)
You will be presented an editor window. From here, give the custom user style a name. In the editor, add the following.
@-moz-document domain("stackoverflow.com") {
.js-consent-banner {
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
}
You can add additional custom styles for each Stack Exchange site in the moz document domain address, like the following.
@-moz-document domain("stackoverflow.com") {
.js-consent-banner {
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
}
@-moz-document domain("superuser.com") {
.js-consent-banner {
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
}
@-moz-document domain("serverfault.com") {
.js-consent-banner {
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
}
Once you're finished, don't forget to save the user style. After saving the file you should immediately notice the cookie popup is gone.
There are a lot of different Stack Exchange sites. You can get a list of them from the Stack Exchange sites feed list.[2]
References
1. https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/stylem/
2. https://stackexchange.com/feeds/sites
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