Smart Page Cleanup: Cookie Banners & Popups (2026)

Smart Page Cleanup bundles three cleanup behaviors into a single toggle. It’s off by default — CSS injection can occasionally leave empty layout gaps where ad slots used to sit, so the toggle is opt-in. Turn it on once and AutoConsent, persistent ad hiding, and popup blocking all run together.

AutoConsent: Cookie Banner Rejection

Cookie consent banners fire before you can interact with a page. Smart Page Cleanup uses the AutoConsent library to detect them and dismiss them by selecting the reject/decline path — not accept. The banner disappears. No click required.

AutoConsent supports hundreds of consent management platforms. Banners that use non-standard implementations may not be detected. In those cases the banner remains and you can click manually as usual.

Cosmetic Ad Hiding

Some ad slots survive network-level blocking. The ad network’s domain gets blocked, but the container div stays on the page — an empty box where an ad would have loaded. Cosmetic rules target those containers with CSS and collapse them.

These are CSS injections, not DOM removals. The page structure stays intact; the empty containers are hidden. Page functionality is unaffected.

Popup Blocking

Unsolicited popups come from window.open() calls triggered by page scripts rather than user actions. Smart Page Cleanup intercepts those calls and drops the popup before the browser opens a new window.

Popups that follow a direct user click — OAuth flows, download dialogs, payment processor windows — are allowed through. The distinction is whether the window.open() traces back to a genuine user gesture within a 1-second window.

When to Turn It Off

Smart Page Cleanup is a single toggle — there’s no per-behavior control. If a site’s cookie preferences need to persist (say, a subscription site you’ve already logged into), add that domain to the whitelist instead of disabling the feature globally.