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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: 0.202s | 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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aaronrobinson ◴[22 Oct 25 12:45 UTC] No.45668227[source]▶
This. And the ones that mean you have to manually switch off multiple legitimate interest toggles mean I just press the back button.
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1. mrguyorama ◴[22 Oct 25 19:00 UTC] No.45673612[source]▶
Since "legitimate interest" means you don't need consent, they do not let you toggle it off.

If they are showing you a toggle and calling it for "legitimate interest", they are most likely lying.

They love to put cookies under "performance and enhancements" as if that isn't bullshit as well.

All legitimate interest cookies are in the greyed out toggle for "required cookies".

By law, you can decline all and the site should still work fine, which again means they won't allow you to turn off actually needed cookies.