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Kill The Cookie Banner

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Re: Kill The Cookie Banner

#12
Even well meaning bodies like TFL (Transport for London) have cookie warnings that impede the actual access of the website.

Need to look up a bus time? Full screen cookie consent with accept buttons drawn OFF THE SCREEN.

Re: Kill The Cookie Banner

#13
post #9

The insanity around cookie banners is a good target. > Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Fortunately, if you have uBlock Origin, you can enable Easylist cookie notices under annoyances and avoid most of them. Combine with blocking third-party cookies, and the problem pretty much disappe…

If it's not cookies, it will be something else. IP addresses, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting.

The Do Not Track header is the only technology needed. The rest is compelling companies to obey it.

Re: Kill The Cookie Banner

#18
Wow, finally. This would be a major quality of life update for browsing the web. As others have stated, not all sites merit the same preferences. Hopefully they can adapt a middleground of default settings with the ability to customize site by site.

Re: Kill The Cookie Banner

#19

Doesn't this lead to an all-or-nothing approach? I don't want randomnewssite to track me. But a favorite online store...I do want help with recommendations.

You would presumably be logged in to your favorite store site, and they would be using your identifying session to make recommendations, not anonymous tracking cookies.

Eh, maybe.

It's easier to click a single button than hunt for how to create/access an account for the brand.

Re: Kill The Cookie Banner

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post #18

Wow, finally. This would be a major quality of life update for browsing the web. As others have stated, not all sites merit the same preferences. Hopefully they can adapt a middleground of default settings with the ability to customize site by site.

under what circumstances as user would I want to explicitly agree to have my browsing history sent to tens or hundreds of third party tracking aggregators?
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