Taste is a browser extension acting as a consent manager on your behalf. It filters and manages cookies on websites to automate the consent process so that you no longer have to deal with cookie-banners.

A cookie-blocker has one binary choice: accept or refuse all cookies.
Taste goes further and offers consent that is not binary, but adapted to the websites you visit according to their transparency and respect for your privacy.
Because we know that not all cookies are malicious: some are even extremely useful for visitors such as logging-in without having to re-type your user details or seeing advertising on a specific product.
We also know that some websites need cookies to continue to exist, so if they respect your privacy, why not reward them?

This is a small file stored on your device (phone, computer) that enables a website to obtain information about you and the way you use the website.
In concrete terms, here are a few examples:
You can log-in without having to retype your user details, because of a cookie.
If you can share content from a website directly on your socials, it’s because of a cookie
If you get advertising on a specific product or subject you checked before, it’s because of a cookie
The list could go on indefinitely, but as you can see cookies are used for a wide variety of purposes.

When you visit a website and Taste does not offer a rating for it, it is because some of the factors taken into account in our rating process are not known.
But don't worry, thanks to your visit, Taste will take this new information into account in order to provide a rating for this website as quick as possible in the following days.

Our internal rating system takes several factors into account in order to determine whether a website manages your personal data responsibly.
For now, these factors are as follows:

— Website security and seriousness
— CMP Configuration
— Data minimization and privacy by default
— Access to information
— History of GDPR infractions

When you set Taste to "Pause" mode, the extension will no longer make a new decision to accept or refuse cookies from the site you are visiting. You can nevertheless consult your consent history on the extension and reconsider some of your choices. You can also download your complete history in CSV format.

The history of your choices and consent to the deposit of cookies is only stored locally, i.e. on your computer. This means that only you have access to your browsing history and consent data. We only store data related to your user account (e.g. e-mail address) on our servers.

Taste acts as a consent manager regarding cookie banners. It always tries to:
1- Provide granular consent - that is, to accept certain cookies (also called partners), and to refuse others - based on the score* these receive.
2- Refuse or accept all cookies when the first case is not possible.

In which cases is granular consent impossible?

Taste may display a "not managed" consent state:
1- When it is not yet able to interact correctly with a site's cookie banner (also called CMP): in this case, the banner will appear, and you will have to give your consent manually.
This is an ongoing effort, we are increasing the number of CMPs managed by Taste day by day to reduce this occurrence!
2- When the only options in the banner are to accept or to pay/subscribe to access the website: in this case, Taste accepts all cookies so that the CMP does not appear and your browsing is not disturbed.

You can, of course, revoke this consent at any time in the extension settings via your history.

*Details of this score in the section "How does the Taste rating system works ?" of this FAQ!