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I use this addon to get rid of the cookie banners: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu

Someone here responded[1], that you can just enable "EasyList Cookie" filter in adblock and it should have similar effect.

I'm extremely hesitant to give any extension automatic access to every single page I'm loading. I want Firefox to come with these things built in.

If you trust uBlock Origin, you can block cookie banners by adding https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/ to uBlock Origin’s custom filter list