Meet ‘CookieEnforcer’: A Machine Learning-Based Proposed Browser Extension That Rejects Optional Cookies in Your Browser Automatically

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google claims to have discovered a way to use artificial intelligence to combat the pervasiveness of manipulative cookie consent pop-ups on the web. The project, dubbed CookieEnforcer, was announced this month to automate the clicking through of options in these online authorization forms to disable all non-essential cookies on a website. As a result, the resulting software can save netizens from having to manually reject cookies presented by a website. …

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