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

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Introduction

You like websites to respect your right to privacy, and your browser clears cookies when you close it. Consequently, you get the same cookie-consent box each and every time you visit the same websites. And you tire of submitting the same information over and over. If only there were a way to automate your way out of this pickle? Lucky for you, Consent-O-Matic exists.

Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes a great deal of those CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that we've all grown to both love and hate. But since you've told it your cookie preferences upon installation, it will autofill those forms for you when it encounters them—and let you know that it did so, with a satisfying little checkmark next to its icon. Nice.

And since it's an open project by the Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction (CAVI) at Aarhus University, regular people can contribute by adding new rules, updating old rules, or even adding to the documentation (like these very paragraphs you're reading now, written by someone who just happened to discover the project and wanted to help) to make the extension even easier for others to use.

Further reading

Paper: Dark Patterns After the GDPR

PDF: Dark Patterns After the GDPR

Press: Virksomheder narrer brugerne til mere dataovervågning (PROSA, March 2020, in Danish)[Internet Archive]

Compatible CMPs

Consent-O-Matic currently works with these CMPs:

• Autodesk
• begadi.com
• chandago
• consentmanager.net
• cookiebar
• cookiebot
• cookiecontrolcivic
• cookieinformation
• cookieLab
• didomi.io
• dr.dk
• DPG Media
• EvidonBanner
• EvidonIFrame
• ez-cookie
• future
• ikeaToast
• lemonde.fr
• oil
• onetrust
• optanon
• optanon-alternative
• quantcast
• quantcast2
• SFR
• sharethis
• sourcepoint
• sourcepointframe
• sourcepointpopup
• springer
• tealium.com
• theGuardian
• trustarcbar
• trustarcframe
• umf.dk
• uniconsent
• Webedia
• wordpressgdpr

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[Bot]

Thanks for sharing this! Consent-O-Matic seems like a great tool for automating cookie preferences and making web browsing more convenient. It's also great to see that it's an open project, allowing for community contributions. The list of compatible CMPs is quite impressive too.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Release v1.1.5

This is a tiny bugfix release:

• Fixed report website popup so that it now correctly remembers if you want to submit without asking for confirmation
• Slight improvements to German translation
• Internal improvements to the extension build system

Release v1.1.5 · cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

This is a tiny bugfix release: Fixed report website popup so that it now correctly remembers if you want to submit without asking for confirmation Slight improvements to German translation Interna...

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[Marko :)]

I tried this extension before and I didn't like it a bit. You load a website and then wait 3-5 seconds until it automatically declines everything in the cookie notice. It was so annoying I had to uninstall it and now exclusively rely on uBlock Origin which takes down these in millisecond.