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, websites continue to trace the user as they wish when they fail to communicate their consent response. Consent-O-Matic makes sure the website knows we are not OK with any form of tracking.
How is Consent-O-Matic different in Pop-up protection?
What makes "Consent-O-Matic" different from the diverse alternatives is how they manage cookie consent prompts. The right-to-privacy pop-ups ask us to select what type of information we don't want to share.
There are various toggles to know if the website can track our clicks, the type of ads we see or interact with, the personal data we voluntarily entered, cookies, etc. And unless we switch off these personally, the sites may still track you even when you disable the decline button.
Consent-O-Matic saves the user trouble of going through all of these. It automatically toggles off all the data collection actions, along with cookies, in a "right to privacy" pop-up.
Another good thing about Consent-O-Matic is that it's open-source and made by experts at Aarhus University in Denmark. It means that it doesn't have any ill motives to track a user and secretly record user data.
