Since you mention "delete the cookie banners and associated tracking completely" without specifying methods:
On browsers which support it, I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin, as well as the Stylus CSS manager.
uBlock Origin has an element remover that will permanently remove elements from a website. It's point-and-click, though you may need to hunt a bit to find the full element responsible for annoyances. (There's also a "zapper", which is temporary only.) I'll typically remove cookie and all other nags, as well as social "link litter", recommendations, Taboola chumboxes, and the like, if my normal adblocking hasn't already addressed these.
Under uMatrix, I'll simply globally deny cookies to the site. Since for most sites the only value I receive from cookies is to remove cookie nags ... this has zarro effect on any site functionality. (For a very small number of sites which I rely on authentication --- of which HN is a very large share --- I of course don't do this.)
Where necessary, tracking hosts / domains are blocked via a DNS-based blocklist.
DNT would of course be the proper way to achieve all of this. The advertisers and surveillance industry have chosen to ignore this. Turnabout is fair play.
Another option, and one I rely on increasingly, is to view the site via alternative intervases such as the Internet Archive or Archive.Today, outline.com, 12ft.io, etc.
On my e-ink tablet, I'll frequently save page as PDF or ePub and read that instead.
(The EInkBro "save to ePub" feature is a bit of brilliant genius, as it permits saving multiple pages to a single document or "book", and is an excellent way of organising reading for a day or week. See: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107958709435468728)
TL;DR: Nuke banners, block cookies, using browser extensions, or hit the content from an alternate service.
On browsers which support it, I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin, as well as the Stylus CSS manager.
uBlock Origin has an element remover that will permanently remove elements from a website. It's point-and-click, though you may need to hunt a bit to find the full element responsible for annoyances. (There's also a "zapper", which is temporary only.) I'll typically remove cookie and all other nags, as well as social "link litter", recommendations, Taboola chumboxes, and the like, if my normal adblocking hasn't already addressed these.
Under uMatrix, I'll simply globally deny cookies to the site. Since for most sites the only value I receive from cookies is to remove cookie nags ... this has zarro effect on any site functionality. (For a very small number of sites which I rely on authentication --- of which HN is a very large share --- I of course don't do this.)
Where necessary, tracking hosts / domains are blocked via a DNS-based blocklist.
DNT would of course be the proper way to achieve all of this. The advertisers and surveillance industry have chosen to ignore this. Turnabout is fair play.
Another option, and one I rely on increasingly, is to view the site via alternative intervases such as the Internet Archive or Archive.Today, outline.com, 12ft.io, etc.
On my e-ink tablet, I'll frequently save page as PDF or ePub and read that instead.
(The EInkBro "save to ePub" feature is a bit of brilliant genius, as it permits saving multiple pages to a single document or "book", and is an excellent way of organising reading for a day or week. See: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107958709435468728)
TL;DR: Nuke banners, block cookies, using browser extensions, or hit the content from an alternate service.