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How Cookie banner trended on Hacker News

Cookie banner was mentioned 5,518 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2024 with 178 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Cookie banner appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Cookie banner

1. 1.Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law 607 points · 639 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Brave browser now blocks cookie banners 542 points · 568 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners 410 points · 244 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe 332 points · 381 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies 296 points · 166 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete 270 points · 261 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints 194 points · 123 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Noyb.eu files 422 formal GDPR complaints on nerve-wrecking “Cookie Banners” 189 points · 80 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com 188 points · 222 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Block cookie banners on Firefox 155 points · 99 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner 145 points · 137 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Defeating Cookie Banners 107 points · 79 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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