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

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582 points SweetSoftPillow | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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negendev ◴[22 Oct 25 13:33 UTC] No.45668903[source]▶
This is the way. The law is broken and was built on misunderstandings and is not enforceable, and also caused a ton of headache for internet browsing (no one really wants to enable cookies just to read a news article?). Enforce it at the browser level (by law) to prevent private information BY DEFAULT unless the user really wants to give their private information, and if they want to, then they can comply.

Sorry for all the companies that like to track personal information, but this is how it has to be (not sorry).

Maybe it will one day lead to elimination of (most) cookies and lead to cleaner browsing experience.

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1. croes ◴[22 Oct 25 14:02 UTC] No.45669337[source]▶
Remember DNT? We already had that in the browser but websites started to ignore in when MS announced that their browser would set it to true by default.

Let’s face it, users don’t want to be tracked, websites want to track. The cookie banners are the middle ground and the law already tries to prevent all those dark patterns to enforce „accept all“.

I remember the early days when the cookie banner on Tumblr forced the user to deselect every single tracker of the hundreds of trackers they listed.