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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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ben_w ◴[22 Oct 25 12:59 UTC] No.45668405[source]▶
My least-favourite is websites with the "Pay or OK" model: "If you don't want more companies tracking you than were people in your high school, teachers and students both, you must pay us! [Pay] [Accept tracking]"

*Copy URL, close window, open private browsing session, paste*

As an aside, is anyone else getting LLM-writing-style vibes from the linked page, or is that just me?

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1. GrinningFool ◴[22 Oct 25 17:35 UTC] No.45672471[source]▶
The thing is, these sites that give you an option to pay only let you pay to opt out of advertising (and some only partially!). It does nothing to stop tracking you.

There are several sites I would not hesitate to pay for, but the most that will net me is generally "content with invasive tracking". Sometimes with no ads and sometimes with "fewer ads". But in either case, still a non-starter because it's still capturing the same data about me and sharing it.