The European Commission aims to reform the EU’s cookie consent rules that have cluttered websites with intrusive banners asking for permission to track user data[1]. The initiative seeks to streamline data protection while maintaining privacy safeguards through centralized consent mechanisms[1:1].
Cookie consent banners emerged from the ePrivacy Directive (Cookie Law) and GDPR requirements, which mandate websites obtain explicit user permission before collecting non-essential data through cookies[2]. Current rules have led to widespread implementation of pop-up notices that interrupt user experience and often employ confusing interfaces.
The proposed changes reflect growing recognition that the existing approach has “messed up the internet” while failing to provide meaningful privacy protection[1:2]. Rather than requiring individual consent on every website, the Commission is exploring solutions like centralized consent management to reduce banner fatigue while preserving user privacy rights.
Yes, but it use anyway the filters which already are in the adblocker (Easy List Cookie List and some others). I’ve this filters not only in the adblocker, also in the trackerblcker, so fhe cookie advice is bskipped, even in adblock whitelisted pages.
AFAIK these filters merely hide the pop ups, meaning you are agreeing to the tracking. Consent-o-matic on the other hand actually clicks “No” on them.
Correct me if I’m wrong
The filter block all cookies which can be desactivated in the consent menu, same do the consent-o-matic extension. The rest is anyway blocked by the tracking blocker, site permission settings in Vivaldi and, in my case, also by the filters in the Portmaster which I use. If you also use the Site Bleacher Extension (somewhat outdated, but still extreme effective), Cookie-autodelete, CookieBro or similar (removes automatically cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs after leaving the page), “you never has visited this page”. Means, there are enough manners out there which you can use to show them the middle finger and which make this cookie consent pop up useless.