Microsoft's GitHub recently removed unnecessary cookies from its website. As a result, you will no longer see any cookie banners that you have to click to get rid of.

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GitHub got rid of annoying cookie banners by eliminating tracking cookies altogether. A product manager explains why it was worth the trade-offs.

A GitHub senior product manager told Business Insider about how the company pulled it off and how other websites could follow its example.

Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its ... “No one likes cookie banners,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman writes in today’s announcement.

This has allowed GitHub to remove its cookie banner, an annoying prompt you see on websites that use third-party cookies. It’s a good example for a web service to set. Skip to main content.