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Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

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582 points SweetSoftPillow | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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michaelmauderer ◴[22 Oct 25 12:36 UTC] No.45668112[source]▶
The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking.

"Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is! And this is starting to be enforced through the courts, so you're increasingly seeing the "Decline All" option right away. As it should be. https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stan...

Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better.

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torginus ◴[22 Oct 25 12:41 UTC] No.45668188[source]▶
I wonder why people don't build a collection of scripts into a browser plugin, like Adblock that auto rejects all tracking info to the greatest extent possible?
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h4kor ◴[22 Oct 25 12:44 UTC] No.45668215[source]▶
These exist. There is "Consent-O-Matic" for example
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1. retSava ◴[22 Oct 25 13:34 UTC] No.45668930[source]▶
Isn't that the inverse? Ie auto-accept just to get rid of the UI box?

Edit: their FF-page says,

Set your preferences once, and let the technology do the rest!

This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.

We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don't perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.

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2. tcfhgj ◴[22 Oct 25 13:37 UTC] No.45668970[source]▶
> Isn't that the inverse? Ie auto-accept just to get rid of the UI box?

no, that's "I don't care about Cookies"