Consent-O-Matic fills recognized cookie-consent pop-ups according to your preferences. The project says it tries to choose privacy-preserving settings for unfamiliar categories, but some pop-ups remain unsupported. The project’s description explains how the extension handles those choices and what happens when you report a problem.
How it applies your preferences
A consent-management provider (CMP) supplies the pop-up where a site asks about tracking and other data-processing choices. Consent-O-Matic says it recognizes these prompts and fills them in using the preferences you set in the extension. For categories it does not recognize, it tries to submit the most privacy-preserving settings.
The project describes an attempt, not a guarantee that every prompt will be handled or that a site will stop all data collection. A consent pop-up is one place where a site asks for your choices; the extension’s stated job is to fill out those prompts.
Browsers listed by the project
The Consent-O-Matic project lists Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari for desktop, plus Safari on iPhone and iPad. Its listed mobile option is Safari. See the project’s browser and installation information.
What it stores and sends when you report a problem
During ordinary use, the project says the extension stores your settings and two counts on your device: how many pop-ups it has interacted with and how many clicks it has saved.
Reporting a broken or unsupported site is a separate, voluntary action. The report sends the site’s URL to the project. Its privacy statement says the server receives an IP address with that request, but the project does not access or store that address.
What the five preference categories represent
The developer’s Apple App Store description says it grouped processing purposes from 680 pop-ups into five categories that users can toggle. That gives context for the extension’s preference settings: they organize kinds of data processing into choices the extension can apply to recognized prompts. The App Store listing attributes the description to the developer.
What happens when a prompt is unsupported
The project warns that some pop-ups are not handled. Its privacy-focused fallback for unfamiliar categories does not cover every custom prompt, so you may still encounter consent screens that the extension cannot fill for you.
