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by capableweb 1469 days ago
It's not even low, but straight up breaking the regulations which made them put up that banner in the first place. But seems companies haven't yet understood that, nor have governments actually enforced anything so, here we are.
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We need a browser extension to delete these stupid cookie consent popups
This gives consent automatically (in an unspecified amount of cases). The correct action is to respond with a "no consent" answer every time, because withdrawing your consent for every single optional cookie category should be the default. People bother you with popups because they hate you, not because they are mandatory.
While it's true that this extension sometimes accepts all cookies, that isn't the case most of the time. From the extension's website:

> In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.

It would be helpful to have a "what did you choose on this site" view though if that doesn't exist yet.

It would be better if the default was to reject always, everywhere. And the "please pander to corporate evil" flag was something to turn on explicitly.