Rachel's GDPR
Consent Manager
FOR USERS,ACADEMICS,DEVELOPER

• Meaning of Protection Status

  Our extension works by the detecting presence of known GDPR Consent Management Platforms (CMPs). CMPs are leveraged in sites to show you the GDPR cookie consent banners and enforce cookie policies (regulating data-collection by trackers). Consequently,
  • if you see a green text in the extension (stating “Auto Protection Enabled”), it means the detected GDPR CMPs are present in our extension's CMP list and we have automatically set the best privacy protection for you so that you browser allows collection of only the strictly necessary data for the website to function as permitted by GDPR.
  • If you see a yellow text (stating “Site is not yet supported”), it indicates that either the website does not provide a way to obtain consent via cookie consent banners OR the CMP present in this site is not currently detected by our extension. If you believe there is cookie consent banner on this site, and we do not support or detect it, please do use the contact form below to send a feedback to us.
  • If the text is red (stating “User Disabled Protection”), it means you “Disabled” automatic protection for the site in extension.

• Optional Settings

  We provide two slider options to support four functions:

		Scope of "Apply"		Apply
		for this site	for all site
Auto Protection Mode	Enable Auto Protection Enabled	√		automatically set GDPR protection for the site currently visiting.
			√	automatically set GDPR protection for all sites you visited
	Disable User Disabled Protection	√		withdraw GDPR consents for the current site and remember your choice
			√	withdraw GDPR consents for all websites you visited in browser

Classification Result for Cookies in your Browser

After you've installed our extension on your browser, our extension will start locally analyzing your cookies.

• Consent Cookies

  As proof-of-concept, we first crafted regular expressions (regex) to detect consent cookies and augment this approach with light-weight machine learning (ML) classifiers. Together, Regex+ML approach robustly identifies GDPR consent-related cookie names with high accuracy and low time cost.

• Other Classes

  We are using machine learning models to classify cookies into four categories: Strictly Necessary, Functionality, Performance and Targeting/Advertising Cookies, providing over 90% accuracy of prediction.

• Classification Design

  

• First Installation

  If you are installing our extension for the first time, the extension will pop up a survey website that will help us gather your understanding of GDPR-related questions. You can also reach the Survey Website from the secondary panel of the extension.

• Research Ethics

  Your survey responses will be used in our research only if you provide explicit consent. Please note that even if you consent, we will never store any personal identifiers in our collected data; any data collected will be used only for the purposes of non-commercial academic research.