How to Automatically Block Cookies Popups with Consent-O-Matic

The GDPR was supposed to give us more control over our data, but it gave birth to a bureaucratic monster with notably ubiquitous cookie consent banners that sometimes even use manipulation techniques that are called dark patterns in order to push us to accept everything and anything. But fortunately for us, a team of Scandinavian researchers has developed Consent-O-Matic, an extension for Chrome and Firefox that identifies, decorates and automat…