During my research process, I came to realise the amount of prompts that popped up upon visiting a website to collect cookies. This led to the research that raised the question of what exactly companies are collecting such cookies for and the extent of data extracted. Despite having settings to turn off all kinds of cookie selection from the web browser settings, I was keen to look into the future of "what ifs" and applying as a speculative design program.

As Selenium is known for scraping and automating task, I used it's function to automate the process of detecting cookie collection prompts everytime I surf the net. The code works by detecting keywords of "cookie" and "policy", and upon detecting the words, it draws a bounding box around the text.

I tried a few variations to how I could shield user's from the cookie prompts with the idea of "What if all data collection for AI becomes mandatory, in such situations, how can we safeguard and go against data collection?".