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583 points SweetSoftPillow | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.491s | source
1. g105b ◴[] No.45668110[source]
The author's idea is "A Simple, Radical Idea: Put Consent in the Browser". So when you set up your browser, you get a single choice of whether you want websites to track you and sell your data.

Here's an even more radical idea: the browser doesn't even ask you this, and by default it just respects the user's privacy and blocks all third party tracking.

Can you imagine an internet where the user is put first?

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2. jeroenhd ◴[] No.45668804[source]
> Here's an even more radical idea: the browser doesn't even ask you this, and by default it just respects the user's privacy and blocks all third party tracking.

DNT is legally void in several US states because it was enabled by default.

If we do set up a browser-oriented solution, browsers like Firefox and Brave would default to the most privacy-friendly options practical, of course, but they already mostly do that anyway.