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Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by turblety »

I just installed it on Chrome, and it hasn't worked on a single site, but upvoting as I love the idea as horrible as the whole consent banner thing is :(

For example bing.com, britishairways.com all show their consent popup. It does try and do that minimize thing, as something flashes to the bottom right. But the model still appears in the same place as always.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by willks »

turblety wrote: post #61

I just installed it on Chrome, and it hasn't worked on a single site, but upvoting as I love the idea as horrible as the whole consent banner thing is :( For example bing.com, britishairways.com all show their consent popup. It does try and do that minimize thing, as something flashes to the bottom right. But the model still appears in the same place as always.

I've been using this on mobile for a couple of years now, I've noticed it failing in the way you mention quite often in the last 3 months or so. I'm not sure how maintained the rules are, they might need updating. Previously it was working nicely, although probably only on 40% or so of pages. I've also used ublock to block cookie consent popups, which catches more but occasionally has to be disabled as sometimes it will break scrolling or interaction with the page.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by dns_snek »

nottorp wrote: post #46
dns_snek wrote: post #38

I love the idea but giving "root access" to an extension that's "not monitored for security" is a non-starter. I wish Mozilla would step in and do something good for a change.

Would you like an "ecosystem" where you can't publish anything that the gatekeeper doesn't like? I believe there's one over there .

I don't like "ecosystems" where a gatekeeper decides what we can and can't do with our own devices, browsers, etc. That's different from a software repository guarding users against malicious updates, e.g. due to compromised extension publishing account. The blast radius on extensions with permissions like that is huge, they could steal all of our session cookies and login info, for example.

My comment was a bit harsh, and that harshness wasn't aimed at authors of this extension. I'm merely asking Mozilla to be more proactive with extensions that are extremely security sensitive, but also further their own purported mission, like this one.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by sgc »

With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately.

It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by fanf2 »

ivann wrote: post #62

I like this proposal to add a "purpose" field to the cookie header. This could allow consent settings at the browser level, preventing all these pop-ups. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/httpbisa/Mp-DjtBk-sfdQ...

I am sure it will be as successful as do-not-track.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by franga2000 »

ivann wrote: post #62

I like this proposal to add a "purpose" field to the cookie header. This could allow consent settings at the browser level, preventing all these pop-ups. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/httpbisa/Mp-DjtBk-sfdQ...

The problem isn't lack of a solution, we've had DNT for years. It's that the people who want to track you generally don't want to make it easy for you to opt out.

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Post by iwontberude »

sgc wrote: post #66

With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.

To those of us with ADHD this firehose of notifications and distractions feels like a deliberate attack on our agency. It does make me feel like I want to die, not because I’m depressed or suicidal generally but because I can’t imagine aging gracefully with this escalating source of entropy.

Re: Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by alok-g »

Asking genuinely as I never experimented myself -- Does the Internet experience in general cripple if one rejects the cookies on all websites? Or there is very little loss of functionality? I often allow 'essential cookies'. Would go to 'reject all' if that works fine.
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