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I appreciate and respect what the GDPR was trying to accomplish. The hours of corporate training and \u201cplease let us track you with cookies, we pinky-promise we need them\u201d messages that appear on nearly every website? Not so much. Now, the latest version of the Brave browser hopes to get rid of them\u2014the pop-ups, not the training\u2014with a new tool.<\/p>\n

The developers are calling it \u201cCookiecrumbler,\u201d a method for detecting and blocking the ubiquitous cookie consent notices across the web with a variety of approaches. The thing is, blocking these pop-ups was already built into Brave\u2026 but blocking<\/em> the pop-ups wasn\u2019t the biggest problem. According to the announcement post (spotted by BleepingComputer), it\u2019s doing so without breaking the page afterward. It requires an approach that\u2019s almost tailored to each individual site, as these notices are similar but not identical across the web.<\/p>\n

Cookiecrumbler aggregates auto-detection with large language models (\u201cAI\u201d), combined with human reviewers who can iron out the wrinkles where the LLM makes mistakes in detection or automatic translation. The tool is running on Brave\u2019s backend servers at the moment so it can crawl the web and set up rules on a site-by-site basis. The team says it wants to switch things into a browser-based version eventually.<\/p>\n

The best news? Brave is publishing Cookiecrumbler as an open-source tool, so it could be implemented and iterated by other teams. If you prefer another alternative browser (like my personal fave Vivaldi) or you\u2019re uncomfortable with some of Brave\u2019s (ahem) less altruistic moves, you could see Cookiecrumbler pop up in your browser of choice soon.<\/p>\n

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\t\tAuthor: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld\t\t<\/h3>\n
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Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he’s the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop “battlestation” in his off hours. Michael’s previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he’s covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he’s always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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