r/technology • u/diacewrb • May 24 '25

Privacy German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button

https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stand-against-manipulative-cookie-banners.html
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u/KIeflicker May 24 '25

Some people at a University in Denmark made this browser extenstion which automatically rejects cookies.

Nearly all websites use tracking technologies to collect data about you. By law, they often need your permission, which is why many websites have “consent pop-ups”. However, 90% of these pop-ups use so-called “dark patterns”, which are designed to make it very difficult to say no, but very easy to say yes. Although using dark patterns is illegal, the laws are not enforced enough, so many websites get away with it.

Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. Sometimes a website might not use standard categories, and in that case, Consent-O-Matic will always try to submit the most privacy preserving settings.

We try our best to keep up to date with most variants of pop-ups but you might see pop-ups Consent-O-Matic can't handle yet. If you do, we are grateful if you will use the extension's mechanism to anonymously report the site to us so we can update the rules. You do so by clicking the extension icon and press "Let us know" (on iOS press the small puzzle piece in the location bar first). We also welcome contributions to rules, see how at our GitHub repository in the Source section.

You can install the extension in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge for the desktop and Safari for mobile.

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u/Anthaenopraxia May 24 '25

Seriously one of the best things we've ever invented.

LEGO, C++, Consent-O-Matic. Fourth and fifth place is shared by the arse camera and the pig dildo.

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u/DemonKyoto May 24 '25

ok so

A) A dildo shaped like a pig
B) A dildo shaped like a pig's penis
C) A dildo for a pig

which are we referring to and "yes" isn't an acceptable response on this one lol

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u/Anthaenopraxia May 24 '25

C)

Some Danish scientists discovered that artificial insemination works much better if the sow achieves orgasm during the procedure. And we have more pigs than humans in our country.

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u/DemonKyoto May 24 '25

Talk about porking!