CookieTin

CookieTin (styled CookieTIN; domain cookietin.app) is a small studio building a family of free, privacy-first Chrome extensions under the banner “Tools for humans, not algorithms.”¹ The lineup is pitched at “anyone who just wants a calmer, cleaner, more human corner of the web,” and currently spans four extensions — CookieTin, LinkyLink, Usure, and Blankie — each built to remove a specific kind of algorithmic friction from everyday browsing.¹ The studio is published by Ginza Concepts LLC, based in Montrose, California, and launched the suite in 2026.²

The extensions

All four are free, require no account, and are explicitly designed to collect no data.¹³²

CookieTin

The flagship. CookieTin automatically rejects cookie-consent banners — hunting down the reject button “even when it’s buried behind ‘manage preferences,’ renamed to something vague, or hidden three screens deep” — and dismisses email-capture walls, newsletter signups, exit-intent overlays, and autoplaying media.³ Notably, before it closes a popup it reads it: if there’s a discount code, a sale percentage, or a free-shipping offer inside, CookieTin extracts the deal. Its own summary: “Auto-rejects cookies, closes pop ups, fetches deals” — free, no account, no data.³

LinkyLink

A Google-results cleaner: “Google, but just the results. No ads. No AI fluff. No sponsored garbage.” It strips ads and sponsored blocks from search results and lets you toggle Google’s AI answers on or off.¹

Usure

A checkout speed-bump for impulse spending. Rather than blocking purchases, Usure pauses you at checkout and asks you to “pick your mood, check in with yourself, then decide” — adding intentional friction instead of a hard block.¹

Blankie — Gentle Browsing

A mindful-browsing extension that “gently pauses you before visiting distracting or anxiety-inducing websites,” with mood check-ins, mindful timers, and scroll tracking, running entirely offline.² Its pitch: “Not the habit. Not the algorithm. You.”¹

Pricing and model

Every CookieTin extension is currently free to install from the Chrome Web Store, with no account and no data collection.³² The studio is building toward optional monetization — a subscription is signposted as “coming,” and it runs limited physical “drop” merchandise — but the core tools are free today.¹

Maker

CookieTin is published by Ginza Concepts LLC (Montrose, California; hello@cookietin.app).² The studio keeps its individual founder low-profile and presents the work as an independent, one-person effort with a clear point of view: that the browser should serve the user rather than advertisers and engagement metrics. That ethos is consistent across the products — each is local-first, account-free, and built to subtract from the browsing experience (ads, banners, dark patterns, compulsive loops) rather than add to it.¹²

How it compares

CookieTin is upfront that it doesn’t replace an ad blocker. Its flagship’s “CookieTin vs uBlock Origin” explainer concludes the two “don’t compete — most people run both,” since uBlock targets ads and trackers while CookieTin targets cookie banners and deals.³ The suite as a whole overlaps less with ad blockers and more with the “digital wellbeing” category. All claims below are from each tool’s published pages.

Tool	Price	Focus	Closest CookieTin analog
CookieTin (suite)	Free3	Cookie banners, clean search, mindful & intentional browsing1	—
uBlock Origin	Free (open source)4	Blocks ads and trackers4	CookieTin / LinkyLink
One Sec	Freemium5	Adds friction before opening distracting apps and sites5	Blankie / Usure
Freedom	Paid subscription6	Blocks distracting sites and apps across devices6	Blankie

What sets CookieTin apart is breadth with restraint: one studio covering cookie banners, search clutter, impulse spending, and doom-scrolling, delivered as free, no-data, single-purpose tools rather than one heavyweight app.¹³

Alternatives

• Choose uBlock Origin if your main goal is blocking ads and trackers; it pairs with, rather than replaces, CookieTin.⁴
• Choose One Sec if you specifically want research-backed friction before opening distracting apps and sites.⁵
• Choose Freedom if you want to block distractions across all your devices on a schedule, and don’t mind a subscription.⁶
• Choose CookieTin if you want a free, privacy-first set of small tools — auto-rejecting cookie banners, cleaning Google results, and adding gentle pauses to impulsive or compulsive browsing — from a studio whose whole thesis is “tools for humans, not algorithms.”¹³

Recent activity

• June 2026. The suite’s extensions reached version 1.0.0 on the Chrome Web Store (Blankie updated June 2, 2026), published by Ginza Concepts LLC.²
• 2026. Public launch of the CookieTin family — CookieTin, LinkyLink, Usure, and Blankie — as free Chrome extensions.¹³
• Roadmap. An optional subscription is signposted as “coming,” alongside limited physical merch “drops.”¹

As a 2026 launch, CookieTin’s public footprint so far is its own site, the Chrome Web Store, and its social channels (Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube) rather than mainstream press.⁷

External links

• cookietin.app (official site)
• CookieTin on the Chrome Web Store
• Blankie on the Chrome Web Store
• CookieTin on X

Footnotes

1. CookieTin homepage (studio positioning, “Tools for humans, not algorithms,” the LinkyLink / Usure / Blankie summaries, roadmap, and social channels). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://www.cookietin.app ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Blankie – Gentle Browsing on the Chrome Web Store (publisher Ginza Concepts LLC; Montrose, California; hello@cookietin.app; version 1.0.0, updated June 2, 2026; offline, no-data design). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bafjjmhcaimmehadlaefglieeldcmpdk ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

3. CookieTin flagship extension page (auto-reject behavior, deal extraction, “free, no account, no data,” and the “CookieTin vs uBlock Origin” comparison). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://www.cookietin.app/cookietin ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

4. uBlock Origin (free, open-source ad and tracker blocker). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://ublockorigin.com ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. One Sec (friction before distracting apps/sites). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://one-sec.app ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. Freedom (cross-device distraction blocking; paid subscription). Retrieved June 6, 2026. https://freedom.to ↩ ↩² ↩³

7. General web review of CookieTin’s public presence (own site, Chrome Web Store, and social channels). Retrieved June 6, 2026. ↩