The EU may have brought freedoms, peace, and wealth to millions of people, but all those benefits have been nullified by one horrendous drawback: cookie pop-ups. The consent banners enforced by the bloc's privacy regulations are among the internet's most irritating features. The lawmakers behind them may have had good intentions, but they've merely trained us to blindly click through every notification. After years of suffering this digital torture, a new AI tool has finally offered hope of an escape. Named CookieEnforcer, the system was created by researchers from Google and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The system was created to stop cookies from manipulating people into making website-friendly choices which put their privacy at risk.