Security News > 2022 > September > 'I Don't Care About Cookies' extension sold to Avast
The lone developer of anti-cookie-warning browser add-on "I Don't Care About Cookies" has sold it to Avast, resulting in both concern - and new forks.
Enter I don't care about cookies, a handy browser extension by Croatian developer Daniel Kladnik.
IDCAC, available for pretty much every web browser out there, automatically dismisses cookie warnings.
Avast itself is no stranger to security concerns, notably its controversial, and now discontinued Jumpshot browser extension.
Browser cookies are fairly harmless things, and until the law came in, their main relevance to most of us was as something that system-cleanup programs could use to boost their claims about how much clutter they were removing.
If Avast continues to offer the extension for free, and you're happy to trust the company, this flurry of attention may prove beneficial - and if you don't, we suspect that free alternatives will probably start appearing in various browsers' extensions stores very soon.