Attempt to accept english language cookie banners

[philmcmahon]

What does this change?

The webpage snapshot service is fairly unhelpful at the moment - it just takes a screenshot of a giant cookie banner.

Ways of avoiding this:

• Use Brave browser (this doesn't work on theguardian.com)
• Use ublock origin with extra 'EasyList – Cookie Notices' list (this works on theguardian.com) - I tried this using ghostery but without success, maybe more research needed
• Click the first or with the innerHTML 'accept all' - works for > 1 english language sites that I tried

This is a crappy solution - we really need to get some 'see everything everyone does on every website' super powers for our chrome extension (or a different extension) and do the snapshot client side, but, in the meantime I think the risk of randomly navigating to an 'accept all' link is lower than the risk of taking a useless snapshot of a cookie banner.

Where this won't work

• anywhere where the accept button for the cookie banner says something not in ACCEPT_COOKIES_TEXT 🤦🏻

How to test

This works on:

• youtube.com
• theguardian.com

It doesn't work on:

• facebook.com
• x.com
• lemonde.fr
  ...because they are using text other than 'accept all'.

Concerns

Security concerns - someone could put a malicious link in a button and our poor robot would blindly click it. Would this matter? I think it should be fine - the link is clicked inside the puppeteer browser and will be lost when the lambda finishes executing

Related work

#232

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