1 I Don’t Care About Cookies
You were already finding cookie pop-ups annoying in 2021 – look at the box opposite and you’ll see that browser extension I Don’t Care About Cookies (IDCAC) was the ninth most-clicked link that year. But it was during 2022 that your irritation hit new levels, and you sought more advanced ways of blocking them.
Ironically, the link above appeared at the end of a Workshop explaining how to use rival cookie blocker Consent-O-Matic () as an alternative to IDCAC (Issue 642, page 42). We recommended it because we were worried about Avast’s recent purchase of IDCAC. The antivirus firm had ruined CCleaner since buying it in 2017, stuffing it with extra tools and features you don’t need (see Issue 627’s ‘Stop Using Rubbish Software’ Cover
