Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences
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HN comment orderI’ve been using this for a couple years now, and absolutely love it. Thanks, team! I also love that it’s owned by the University of Aarhus, as I am more willing to trust academia with something that has a disturbing level of (client-side) access to my browsing data. I really wish the browser vendors would develop better permission models to guarantee my data can’t be exfiltrated by a malicious plugin (aka a once-good plugin that got bought out by a…
It's wild to me there's all this document sniffing song and dance, rather than just creating some standardized request headers. How many CPU cycles are spent setting up and tearing down these pointless banners?
We've made a major overhaul of the Consent-O-Matic extension and now released it for iOS+macOS Safari as well as desktop Chrome (+Edge) and Firefox. It works with a lot of pages, but keeping up with all the variations of pop-ups is of course a challenge. The plugin extension is open source (https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic) and has a built in visual rule editor for creating new rules for yet unsupported pop-ups. We'd be very happy with any help we could get with making…
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- Total points
- 528
- Total comments
- 296
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-24 | Show HN: Automate filling cookie consent pop-ups with Consent-O-Matic | clemensnk | 1 | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | Consent-o-matic: automatic handling of GDPR consent forms (browser extension) | jka | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-09-15 | Consent-O-Matic browser extension | severine | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-04-13 | Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie managementFirst breakout | DerekBickerton | 204 | 151 |
| 2024-09-08 | Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferencesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | nabla9 | 319 | 144 |