What is Consent-O-Matic
There’s no end to the cookie pop-up trouble. Wherever you go on the web, the user screen is hijacked by huge billboard-sized pop-ups that request if it’s okay for the site to track us online. Our reply is always a confident “NO.”
Still, you have to click the “decline” button every time, and most of the time, it’s layered under complicated jargon. Fortunately, there is a browser extension on every platform to restrict and block cookie consent on pop-ups without you having to manually do it.
The simplest way to get rid of irritating cookie prompts is to automate your response to the consent pop-up. On the computer and phone, you can install third-party extensions and applications that automatically hint sites to acknowledge our right to privacy whenever we come across a data collection pop-up on the web. Here’s how you can do that.
macOS, Windows: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge
If you’re using Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or any other Chromium-based browser like Brave and Microsoft Edge, our best bet against cookie pop-ups is an extension named “Consent-O-Matic.”
Many pop-up blocker extensions just prevent the website from displaying a cookie prompt. It can disfigure a page’s content and despite clear instructions from GDPR that need clear permission
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