France sanctioned Google in January for failing to facilitate the rejection of cookies. National Commission on Information and Freedoms (CNIL), 90 million euros to Google LLC and 60 million euros to Google Ireland Limited in Europe to the company a total fine of 150 million euros cut.
In addition to the penalty, the CNIL, the country’s agency responsible for protecting individual freedoms and privacy rights, had decided that Google should make the rejection of cookies “as easy as accepting” within three months. As the company approached the end of the given deadline, it made the arrangement that Europe wanted.
Awesome solution to annoying ‘cookie permission’ windows
The CookieEnforcer extension, which automatically rejects cookie permission windows on websites, will save users a lot of trouble.
Google put a “Reject all” option in the cookie consent window
Users living in Europe now see a pop-up in the cookie consent window when they visit Google-owned websites such as YouTube. “Reject all” they will see the option. Instead of wasting time determining which cookies will be stored in the browser, thanks to the new feature, all of them can be rejected with one click.
Prior to this change, cookies were allowed in bulk by clicking the “Accept all” button in Google’s cookie consent window. However, when you wanted to refuse, you had to go to the “Customize” section and cancel the cookies you did not want Google to collect one by one.
“Accept all”, “Reject all” and “Other options” This problem has disappeared with three new options. Google announced that it has made the new cookie permission window available in France, and soon to other countries in the European Economic Area (not including Turkey). announced that he would.
According to the statement, the new cookie page supports Google Search and YouTube. who visit while logged out or in Incognito Mode will appear to users. The CookieEnforcer extension, which was developed by a group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google, automatically rejects cookies with an artificial intelligence algorithm, also makes life easier.
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