Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
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Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#2I'm not an author of this extension, just an user. It's not perfect. It still misses many consent forms, but when it works it works wonderfully.
Bigger awareness might lead to more contributions to automate away even more consent forms.
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#3Unlike other extensions, this one doesn't simply 'Accept All', but rather allows you to set default preferences and uses those.
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#4I wish people would stop confusing cookie-consent laws and GDPR. They are quite distinct laws and are giving GDPR a bad rap for wholly the wrong reasons.
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#5Or just activate the filter in uBlock Origin: Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> EasyList Cookie
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#6Or just activate the filter in uBlock Origin: Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> EasyList Cookie
This is great! Thank you for sharing.
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#7The last time [0] (no other comments, just for the easy links), the poster also wrote
> If you trust prebuilt versions of extensions like this--
> Available on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
> Available on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/md...
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#8Or just activate the filter in uBlock Origin: Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> EasyList Cookie
Oh my goodness thank you.
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#9Unlike other extensions, this one doesn't simply 'Accept All', but rather allows you to set default preferences and uses those.
With uBlock Origin you can just hide them, so you don't even have to answer to not consent
Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
#10What I'd be much more interested in is some form of automated reporting of GDPR violations.
EDIT: not to knock on the efforts of this developer though! Just thinking that actually holding websites accountable would be a way out of this internet harassment arms race in the long run.