Worth noting that GDPR says all this crap is opt-in anyway, and everyone is just breaking the law. But the law isn't enforced :-(.
Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences
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#112Shouldn’t this just be called “no”? Or “I do not consent”? Anyone who cares enough to automate this will disable all optional cookies. Also, don’t we all think the law should have simply required websites to respect the browser setting for this instead of requiring it every goddamned time?
The law states all of this should be opt-in. Website operators just ignore it.
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#113Hopefully this is handled in the upcoming eprivacy regulation that intends to move the opt-in choices from individual websites to the browser: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
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#114Hopefully this is handled in the upcoming eprivacy regulation that intends to move the opt-in choices from individual websites to the browser: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
And hopefully the EU has learned a valuable lesson.
Not holding my breath, though.
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#115I’ve been using this for a couple years now, and absolutely love it. Thanks, team! I also love that it’s owned by the University of Aarhus, as I am more willing to trust academia with something that has a disturbing level of (client-side) access to my browsing data. I really wish the browser vendors would develop better permission models to guarantee my data can’t be exfiltrated by a malicious plugin (aka a once-good…
while we're wishing for impossible things i'd also love if the consent dialogs were an actual standard. if sites could describe a list of what they needed consent for and the browser supplied the actual dialog, so i could just configure it to always allow all if i wanted to, that would be fantastic.
As far as I understand at least some businesses in California are required to honor GPC.
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#collapse8b
> Under law, it must be honored by covered businesses as a valid consumer request to stop the sale or sharing of personal information.
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#116Hopefully this is handled in the upcoming eprivacy regulation that intends to move the opt-in choices from individual websites to the browser: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
The upcoming e-privacy directive will most certainly solve all problems, except that it remains to be just that: upcoming for years
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#117Hopefully this is handled in the upcoming eprivacy regulation that intends to move the opt-in choices from individual websites to the browser: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
Sure, if we're really lucky that'll be implemented before 2030 and maybe a handful of us will still be alive to see the day most of the mainstream web actually gets rid of all their obnoxious dialogs :)
It is great to see but I'm also happy if we can have even half a solution like this in the meantime.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would this get past the GDPR? I get the defeatism, there are powerful actors, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the situation.
No, it's not legal. It's clearly not legal, it doesn't need a case. It's well established in the law as it was written. It's just that the enforcement agencies are large, lazy and won't enforce anything. They don't even enforce when you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt when and how the corporations have leaked your private information, let alone when their use of cookies is illegal.
GDPR enforcement actions are happening quite often in the EU.
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#119With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.
> we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately.
Not just popups. We need browsers to die and be reborn as User Agents again.
Currently the best browsers do is some translation and summarization, but there's currently zero automation.
An ability to tell user agent a command, in a natural language, like "go through first 10 pages of those Amazon search results, check every one of them including photos, descriptions and reviews, filter products according to those and those criteria (and not whatever Amazon lets me search and filter on) and give me a nice clean list of images and links with zero extra junk" will be a game changer.
We have all the tools, it's about time we show a middle finger to dark patterns and enshittification. Sure, it'll be a game of cat-and-mouse with websites fighting against robotic agents empowering end users (ad industry is going to hate this so much), but it's a battle worth fighting.
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#120I’ve been using this for a couple years now, and absolutely love it. Thanks, team! I also love that it’s owned by the University of Aarhus, as I am more willing to trust academia with something that has a disturbing level of (client-side) access to my browsing data. I really wish the browser vendors would develop better permission models to guarantee my data can’t be exfiltrated by a malicious plugin (aka a once-good…
It is very hard to prevent exfiltration by code that is allowed to write to the DOM in today’s browsers. There is Content Security Policy (csp) which applies to the whole page and sometimes governs scripts injected by extensions but not the extensions themselves. I would love to see browsers add a chain-of-custody to scripts and DOM nodes, so it is easy to tell which nodes were added/touched by a script, and if a scr…
I'd like to see a separation between read and write permissions to the DOM for plugins personally. I would feel much better if I didn't have to give any plugin that might need to modify parts of a limited set of pages the ability to silently manipulate anything and everything I see in the browser. Read-only access could be granted by default, then only when a plugin sees something it wants to act on it could pop up and request my approval before doing so. The current approximation of that by disabling the plugin globally and enabling it on specific pages is so clunky and adds so much extra friction that I don't ever bother with it.