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

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582 points SweetSoftPillow | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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JumpCrisscross ◴[22 Oct 25 18:34 UTC] No.45673283[source]▶
> "Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is!

Do any browsers support running a minified LLM on device through an extension?

Training an LLM to reject optional cookies (or better yet, fuck with the telemetry) would seem highly doable nowadays.

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1. begrid ◴[22 Oct 25 18:38 UTC] No.45673346[source]▶
You have Consent o matic firefox extension which works quite well, it works well on most websites
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2. noisem4ker ◴[23 Oct 25 04:12 UTC] No.45678096[source]▶
uBlock Origin + Cookie Notice blocklists also work fine.

I started to write this comment meaning to add that Firefox does it all by itself now, but I just read that such feature "is not currently available anymore".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction

Does anyone know what happened after years of development, before I delve into their Bugzilla to find out?

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3. Doohickey-d ◴[23 Oct 25 06:38 UTC] No.45678862[source]▶
Using uBlock to hide the cookie banners mostly works, but there are occasional websites where it's buggy: I have to disable uBlock, accept or reject cookies, then re-enable uBlock.

So some websites actually require an accept/reject, and don't work if just visually hiding the banner, which is what this does.