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Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

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Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

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post #4

I 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.

And GDPR largely superseded cookie consent IMO. As in: you don't even have to ask consent if the cookies are strictly necessary: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

#13
post #4

I 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.

The consent form situation did not get this bad until GDPR was passed. Prior to GDPR cookie-consent forms were simple "Yes" or "No" buttons without all the insane pages of toggles.

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

#14
post #9

Unlike 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

Just hiding consent can sometimes break a page. I haven't experienced any broken pages with this extension.

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

#15

What 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.

NOYB is doing something like that, but they send notifications to the website owners before reporting a violation: https://noyb.eu/en/more-cookie-banners-go-second-wave-compla...

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

#17
I wish there was a standard browser API for this. If the law is going to force this to be a thing, and it's not going away, web standards should respond.

It could even just be a flag in the cookie itself declaring that something isn't strictly necessary.

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

#18
post #11

Or just activate the filter in uBlock Origin: Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> EasyList Cookie

I've used it, but it's not perfect and might occasionally break some websites (e.g can't scroll).

I had same issue with other solutions I tried. Consent-O-Matic is the only extension I found so far that doesn't break pages. But it doesn't handle all consents unfortunately.

Re: Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

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post #4

I 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.

The consent form situation did not get this bad until GDPR was passed. Prior to GDPR cookie-consent forms were simple "Yes" or "No" buttons without all the insane pages of toggles.

Dead simple solution: provide a GDPR consent form with "yes, I accept being tracked" or "no I refuse being tracked in any way".

Or even better, make the form automatically recognizable by your browser and a setting in the browser so that it says yes or no for you.

Have you ever notices that the "yes I agree" button is most of the time MUCH easier to click on than to tell "no I don't" ?

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