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I think there is an untapped market for providing "simplified" interface to important settings (e.g. privacy/security related) of various apps. Sort of a user-friendly settings-api for other apps' settings.

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One of the best plugins I have in my browser automatically works through those cookie banners to select the least invasive option. The speed and way that it simplifies the process is fantastic.

May I ask the name of the plugin, please?

Pretty sure the comment is referring to https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Here's some options

Consent-O-Matic

I still don't care about cookies

uBlock Origin has some filter lists to enable

But if everyone used that, wouldn’t it just encourage websites to get even more sleazy with those infernal cookie menus because instead of a human being forced to click through “performance cookies” vs. “cookies for ad targeting” vs. “cookies you really need” vs. “cookies you probably want” vs. “cookies that seem like the opposite thing to what they actually are” dark pattern web designs, your extension is hiding that burden (and sleaziness) from you.

It's a long time since I've visited the Oracle website but, the last time I did, which was sometime just pre- or early- pandemic for some work-related reason that I can no longer recall, I remember them doing exactly this. They had, without question, the most egregious cookie banner/popup combo I've ever encountered, and seemed to have deliberately engineered it to take minutes to "come back" if you chose to reject everything. Assholes.

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