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

Cookie banner are called cookie banners because they‘re most frequently associated with the opt in for tracking cookies, but this kind of opt in is required for any kind of third party involvement that goes beyond technical necessity.

Your browser has no way to tell what third party present on the site is a technical necessity and which one isn‘t. So you‘d have to tell it - making it part of the site providers problem as well. But this time its worse, because responsibilities are mixed between the site operator and the third party.

There's no value you can give DNT that says "you can do your own on-site tracking and telemetry and I accept sharing my data with Sendgrid for your newsletter, but I do not want third-party trackers".

As a practical example: there are news sites that will not play videos if you hit "deny all" because their video host does some viewership analytics. I'm fine with that, but not the 750 other advertisers the news site tries to have me track.

Of course, "deny all" should be an option, "accept all or deny all" isn't control.

For the longest time we had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P as a basis to build on, but that officially died the day Edge became Chromium-based.

I'm sorry, but does a user who would want this actually exist? This seems like a hypothetical dreamed up by the marketing team to avoid having to accept that a large group of users hate all their tracking shit.