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

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583 points SweetSoftPillow | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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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Aaargh20318 ◴[22 Oct 25 13:25 UTC] No.45668802[source]▶
> Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better

Best way to get rid of the cookie banner is to just forbid tracking completely. Given a free choice, how many people actually want to be tracked?

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1. phendrenad2 ◴[22 Oct 25 14:33 UTC] No.45669739[source]▶
> Given a free choice, how many people actually want to be tracked?

Good question. But there isn't enough information to answer the question. Are these people properly informed about what "tracking" means, or do they think this means companies are passing around their full names and addresses on post-it notes?