I don't know how the experience is in US, but in EU it's because GDPR is a complete failure of a law which doesn't actually solve any problem.
GDPR takes quite a while to get results, but even Google now has a "deny all tracking" button.
Who wants to be tracked?
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#23Is there a browser extension to turn these off?
One of the best ones (as in actually working) is the browser addon: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
That doesn't turn them off, that just consents to everything, including types of tracking that cookie blockers can't get rid of.
Please use consent-o-matic instead.
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#24I don't know how the experience is in US, but in EU it's because GDPR is a complete failure of a law which doesn't actually solve any problem.
The GDPR is on the whole a very successful law which has improved the way companies handle personal data a great deal.
What you are objecting to is specifically the part of that law which mandates consent for gathering personal data, and which resulted in these cookie banners. That's annoying (mostly because a lot of media companies rather continue hovering up data instead of critically assessing the need to do so), but it doesn't invalidate the better parts of the GDPR. Calling it a complete failure is unnecessarily hyperbolic.
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#25I don't know how the experience is in US, but in EU it's because GDPR is a complete failure of a law which doesn't actually solve any problem.
GDPR is the law which at least gave us these prompts. Before that there was no rules for consent, they would just track you.
There was a law just for cookies before.
And no, companies don’t need to put up these prompts, IF they don’t do any UNNECESSARY tracking.
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#26Because in a society that is optimized for profit, it's not about people, it's about what you can get away with for money.
Alas, our society ain't optimised for profit.
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#27Better question here is, why is this not handled through the browser instead of relying on individual web apps to do it. Block third party cookies by default, delete other cookies on the last tab or window closed and prompt user to save cookies on a form submit ("do not delete cookies for this domain when leaving" type of prompt, for pages with logins, settings, etc). Also remove features that make easy fingerprintin…
The last thing a browser wants to do is break experience for older sites. If a site relies on 3rd party cookies for log in, it will no longer work on your browser. It makes your browser look shit. Same reason we allow unclosed tags, crossed tags, etc.
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#29Is there a browser extension to turn these off?
Consent-o-matic can automatically reject consent and legitimate interest prompts.
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#30Better question here is, why is this not handled through the browser instead of relying on individual web apps to do it. Block third party cookies by default, delete other cookies on the last tab or window closed and prompt user to save cookies on a form submit ("do not delete cookies for this domain when leaving" type of prompt, for pages with logins, settings, etc). Also remove features that make easy fingerprintin…
I've been thinking about the same thing - this feels like it deserves a native API, so we can get rid of all these dark patterns currently being employed.