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> a) do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

i recommend everyone gets the chrome plugin that auto accepts these banners so you never have to see them again

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The plug-in is called Consent-o-Matic and was built by students at Aarhus University, Denmark.

You can read more about it and how to set it up here: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Can it auto-reject them?

> Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. Sometimes a website might not use standard categories, and in that case, Consent-O-Matic will always try to submit the most privacy preserving settings.

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

So sounds like that should be somewhat supported.

It can.

actually, you don't need to actively reject, it's the operator which has to obtain active informed consent, so default option is "no consent given"

I have a Firefox extension that deletes all cookies after I close all tabs related to a site.

I believe uBlock Origin can automatically do this by enabling "EasyList – Cookie Notices" in the extension settings. If you have this extension installed, there's no need to install another.

auto-accepts? We just go back to square 1 in 2011 in that case.

That's the idea. We didn't have banners all over the place in 2011.

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