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I guess that using Consent-O-Matic [1] has saved me some hours of my life :)

[1] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

Thanks for sharing this! I've always wondered why the browsers themselves can't implement this type of feature to improve the web. I assume it's some legal factor.

Firefox has the ability to send the "do not track" header iirc, but websites chose to ignore this. They'll rather nag the users.

Well yeah, obviously? Why would anyone ever respect the "do not track" header? The whole point is to get people to click "accept all" out of fatigue or apathy!

Brave does this for about two years now: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices...

Brave just disables the cookie banners (they don't even load), while this fills such forms if I understood correctly. Somehow I get very targeted ads in other apps after using Brave, so I tend to use firefox-based browsers for personal (i.e. any not work-related) stuff.

For Chromium based browsers... why would the advertising based company make it any easier for users to opt out of advertising. The optimal resolution for Alphabet is users clicking "Accept All" and writing their member of the EU Parliament in frustration.

A risky strategy. There's a moderate chance that the EU comes to its senses and mandates an automated way to opt out of cookies.

What, like a do not track http header say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Probably not. It will probably be more than a single flag.

And also it has to be something backed by legislation. Do Not Track was a dumb idea because it had no teeth.

As a die-hard Firefox user do note that it too exists solely because of advertising.

Thanks for sharing. By skimming through readme some stuff is still not clear to me:

- Can it be used for rejecting consent and not just consenting to everything?

- If so, do you maybe know what happens when it doesn't have a rule for rejecting consent on some site? It would be great if it just lets the pop-up pop up normally.

- How does it handle the "legitimate interest" checkboxes? I.e. can I make it uncheck them all on every site that provides them?

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