Has anyone tried Consent-O-Matic?

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Hi all, :waving_hand:

has anyone of you installed the add-on consent-o-matic in your browser?

  • I found a very interesting article describing it here:

It´s basically a cookie-denying extension, developed by members of Arhus University in Denmark.

  • For firefox:

I checked on it and it seems real:

Domain: consentomatic.au.dk
IP Address: 185.45.23.237
Location Information:
{
  "ip": "185.45.23.237",
  "city": "Århus",
  "region": "Central Jutland",
  "country": "DK",
  "loc": "56.1567,10.2108",
  "org": "AS62138 Aarhus Universitet",
  "postal": "8000",
  "timezone": "Europe/Copenhagen",
  "readme": "https://ipinfo.io/missingauth"

I haven´t tried it yet but it looks promising.

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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That looks really interesting would love to know more about how it works in relation to so many sites i visit. Yes I try to click NO to cookies, but some sites will jot let you in at that point also I worry I may miss something if i say NO.

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The only trouble I ever have with cookies is when an on-line petition refuses to let me sign - or it will let me sign, but refuse to use my cookies so I can share the petition link in Social Media…

I really don’t care too much about privacy… Yeah - I’m lazy - but they already know enough about me - they’re not going to learn anything new…

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I’m using the FF extension named I still don’t care about cookies. No problem, no cookie banners ever.

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Hi all, :waving_hand:

thanks so much for your replies and for providing your opinions on the matter. :heart:

@callpaul.eu :

Yes, I quite often experience this behaviour as well.
I wonder if a cookie-denying add-on can help with that. I guess I´ll have to try it in order to find out.

@daniel.m.tripp :

Right. That sure is the case with many of us.
Perhaps consent-o-matic is for the paranoid ones… :wink: .

@abu :

Thanks, Alfred, for bringing my attention to this alternative add-on you´re using.
I just looked at the link you kindly provided.

Curious fact:

  • I still don’t care about cookies: 111,312 Users
  • Consent-O-Matic: 111,887 Users

Almost the same number of users … coincidence? :thinking:

Many greetings to all of you from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yes, I installed it when I moved to Floorp, because it was in the recommended section and looked interesting. Doesn’t seem to work on all websites, but you can submit requests from the extension.

It really makes surfing the web easier

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Hi @NotANerd, :waving_hand:

Thank you for your comment.
It´s good to have an opinion from a practical perspective.

I already thought it might not work on all websites. Would be too good to be true.

I see. Well, that looks promising.
So your overall verdict is still a good one. Thanks a lot.

BTW: Welcome to the forum. :heart:

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’m reading my It’sFOSS newsletter in Windows, and I saw your link to this extension, and after checking it out, I decided to install it. Thanks for the link, and thank You Rosika for your post that brought it to my attention!

I’ll add it to my Firefox when I switch to my Garuda system later!

Ernie

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I’ve been using it for a few months. Works pretty well, not always, and sometimes slowly, but it handles almost all of the annoyances. If it’s actually functional at blocking them is a job for someone else, but it seems like it is.

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Just installed it in Vivaldi. We’ll see what happens.

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Agree. Maybe I should mention that I’m additionally using Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin as well.

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I think consent-o-matic is more like a daemon than a blocker … it answers the consent question in some standardised way.

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It sounds good, but they are talking a lot about GDPR compliance, which is useful when visiting EU sites, but I’m wondering if it works well on US sites that aren’t as worried about GDPR regs? I’d certainly like to stop having to deal with all the cookie messages…

ex-Gooserider

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For those like me who dont keep an acronym dictionary… gdpr means General Data Protection Regulation… it is about what people can and cant do with your personal information.

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I’m not all that concerned with cookies. I do deny 3rd party ones because advertisers use them to track me across websites, allowing them to generate a very complete profile on me, and I believe that happens, but websites use them to better serve me if I frequent the site. I think that’s a good thing for both the site, and me!

Ernie

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