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

> Your browser becomes your personal privacy enforcer, and the law would require it to act on your behalf. Based on your one-time choice, it would be responsible for allowing or declining cookies from every site you visit. If a website tries to use a cookie with an unclear or undeclared purpose?

Browsers are something the end-user installs. Inserting the government into that doesn't make sense.

This sounds like the idea is for the site to add extra metadata that's not there now, about what each cookie does. Which would still involve mandating site owners to do things.

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Also, both private mode and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... are a thing already, without government meddling.

> Inserting the government into that doesn't make sense.

On what basis? What difference is there between regulating website code and browser code? How a website functions and how a browser functions?

Because a browser is not always a commercial product, whereas a website often is.

I should not need to follow a ridiculous law to give away some software.

That distinction doesn't make sense. You could just as easily say websites are not always commercials products, whereas browsers often are made by for-profit corporations.

You seem to be anti-regulation period.