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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: 0.244s | 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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1. Aerroon ◴[23 Oct 25 06:39 UTC] No.45678865[source]▶
But I don't want to deal with "Accept All" and "Decline All" either.

First, I, the user, am requesting to open the website. It's not the website imposing on me. My browser, which supposedly is under my control, is what forwards all the data.

Second, there is absolutely no way to know whether the website actually does what it says based on the cookie pop up. If it's a website based outside the EU then there's no way to enforce this cookie pop up.

But if the browser handles this, then there is a way to enforce it. Of course, the downside there is that the website will then use other means to potentially collect the data, meaning that you still need the law to limit such data collection.