@cliqz/autoconsent

Cliqz Autoconsent

This is a library of rules for navigating through common consent popups on the web. These rules can be run in a Firefox webextension, or in a puppeteer orchestrated headless browser. Using these rules, opt-in and opt-out options can be selected automatically, without requiring user-input.

This library is primarily used by the cliqz browser in order to automate user-consent, and make a cleaner browsing experience.

Rules

The library's functionality is implemented as a set of rules that define how to manage consent on a subset of sites. These generally correspond to specific Consent Management Providers (CMPs) that are installed on multiple sites. Each CMP ruleset defines:

• If the site is using that CMP
• If a popup is displayed
• Steps to specify an 'opt-in' or 'opt-out' consent for the CMP.
• Optionally, a test if the consent was correctly applied.

There are currently three ways of implementing a CMP:

1. As a JSON ruleset, intepreted by the AutoConsent class.
2. As a class implementing the AutoCMP interface. This enables more complex logic than the linear AutoConsent rulesets allow.
3. As a Consent-O-Matic rule. The ConsentOMaticCMP class implements compability with rules written for the Consent-O-Matic extension.

License

MPLv3.