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How to disable the cookie notification in Plesk

Question

How to disable the “Tell us whether you accept cookies” message in Plesk?

Answer

Note: Disabling the cookie notification in Plesk will set the default cookie behavior to “do not accept”, as the GDPR cookie compliance rules require an explicit user’s consent for accepting cookies.

Disabling the message via Plesk

Log in to Plesk.
Install the Panel.ini Editor from the Extensions menu in Plesk.
Open Panel.ini Editor at Extensions > My Extensions.
In Panel.ini Editor, switch to the Editor tab.
Add the following content:
```
[gdpr]
cookieBox.enabled=false
```
Click Save.

Disabling the message via a comman-line interface

Connect to a Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).
Open the panel.ini file in a text editor (if there is no panel.ini file, rename panel.ini.sample to panel.ini):
- on Linux
  
  PLESK_INFO: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini
- on Windows Server
  
  PLESK_INFO: %plesk_dir%adminconf
Add the following lines to the file:
```
[gdpr]
cookieBox.enabled=false
```
Save the changes and close the file.