Consent-O-Matic1.1.3 - App Store

Cookie pop-ups are designed to be confusing and make you 'agree' to be tracked. This add-on automatically answers consent pop-ups for you, so you can't be manipulated. Set your preferences once, and let the technology do the rest!

This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.

We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don't perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.

Version History This is primarily a bugfix release:
- Fixed typos in German UI
- Fix a bug causing some popups not to be properly registered
- Improve debugging log by splitting it into two flags instead of one in the development tab 1.1.3 09/30/2024 - Trying to work around a bug in Safari causing the extension service worker to be killed about 30-45 seconds after the extension has been enabled with no way to wake it back up ever. This issue affects iOS 17.4.x (only to some extend), 17.5.x and the 17.6 beta

- This release also adds an error in the Safari Settings saying that the extension service_worker failed. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the work-around for the above 1.1.1 06/28/2024 This release contains no feature changes but quite a few changes to the code-base in order to update to the new extension platform "manifest v3":

– Update manifest to version 3
– The extension automatically opens the preferences page once upon installation
– A warning is shown on the preferences page if required permissions have not been granted 1.1.0 06/06/2024 Most changes these days are in the rules. This release wraps up recently added new features and some minor bug fixes to the extension itself:
- Support for creating rules that pierce into shadow DOM (open and closed) for popups that try to hide in there
- Accessibility: The engine now unfocuses the last button clicked when filling out popups so focus is correctly returned to the page itself for tab'ing/space navigation
- French language added to UI
- Better standardized parsing of URLs
- Added missing permission causing Firefox to fail to disable the addon on pages with popups inside iframes from a different domain
- Now correctly doesn't run on content that isn't HTML and also doesn't show an error
- Slightly improved the popup UI
- Fixes for the rule editor 1.0.13 05/14/2024 Performance improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.12 03/04/2023 - Added "Display" settings tab, with choice of popup hide style
- Renamed "Debug" settings tab to "Dev" and made it not hidden.
- Added new matcher "URLMatcher" that matches on URL.
- Various small bug fixes.
- Small translation changes. 1.0.11 11/27/2022 - Fixed an issue in the translation system causing square brackets to be mangled
- Added support for new rule 1.0.10 09/19/2022 - Added experimental scroll hijacking prevention: Attempt to allow the user to scroll and interact with the website while the popup is trying to block it
- Asking CoM to not run on a page when the popup actually runs in an iframe from another domain should now correctly stop CoM from running on that page
- Changed the behaviour of the visual Picture-in-Picture popup filling mode to be much faster
- Relaxed update frequency for rule lists. Now checks randomly only every 22-48 hours instead of every 15min. This uses less data and slightly improves performance.
- Added a new MultiClick action to be used in rules, greatly improving performance for popups that require insane amounts of clicks 1.0.9 09/16/2022 - Added portuguese (pt) translation
- Rules are now made more effective by normalizing text (removing extra spaces etc)
- "Picture-in-Picture"-mode now grabs popups and moves them out of the way
- It is now possible to interact with the underlying page while popups are filled (for most sites - some still have certain restrictions in place)
- A new green progress bar shows how far we are in the process when filling is slow
- Better accessibility for screen readers in the add-on options pages
- Improved rule editor and improved code generated by the rule editor
- Added a JSON schema to make rule editing outside of the built-in editor more smooth
- Fixed a problem with progress dialog not closing properly in Safari and Firefox 1.0.8 06/30/2022 - Added portuguese (pt) translation
- Rules are now made more effective by normalizing text (removing extra spaces etc)
- "Picture-in-Picture"-mode now grabs popups and moves them out of the way
- It is now possible to interact with the underlying page while popups are filled (for most sites - some still have certain restrictions in place)
- A new green progress bar shows how far we are in the process when filling is slow
- Better accessibility for screen readers in the add-on options pages
- Improved rule editor and improved code generated by the rule editor
- Added a JSON schema to make rule editing outside of the built-in editor more smooth 1.0.7 06/28/2022 Mostly bugfixes but there are a few new minor features in this release:
- Rules can now have multiple detectors
- Slightly improved help text in iOS to help enable the extension in the settings and allow it to run on all pages
- License added in the About UI
- Correct settings for approval of MacOS version in App Store 1.0.2 04/27/2022 1.0 04/05/2022