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

>"Imagine if every time you got into your car, you had to manually approve the engine's use of oil, the tires' use of air, and the radio's use of electricity. It’s absurd, right? You’d set your preferences once, and the car would just work."

This is an excellent analogy of the problem!

>"Yet, that’s exactly what we do online. We are asked the same questions, by every single website, every single day. This approach is broken for three simple reasons:

Consent Fatigue is Real: We're so bombarded with these requests that they’ve become meaningless. The banners are an obstacle to be cleared, not a choice to be considered. True consent requires a conscious, informed decision, not an exasperated click to get the pop-up out of the way."

Consent Fatigue -- That phrase is going into my 2025 lexicon! I love it! (Well, the phrase itself, not what it stands for! You know, the words, not the meaning -- the symbol, not the referent! :-) )

Now I like the article's ideas and all (good ideas, very thought provoking, etc., etc.) -- but if cookie consent is delegated to people's browsers, then what if a court case comes up where someone is being sued for a cookie they agreed to, they're asked in court if they agreed to the cookie, and they respond with something like the following:

"No Your Honor, I personally did not agree to that! The browser agreed to it! The browser is guilty, not me!"

:-)

(The same problem could occur outside of browsers, with AI's, if they are acting on behalf of someone... or chain of other AI's...)

Anyway, great article!