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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by fwn on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:20AM (#16865660)
The cookie notice policy led to the worst imaginable actual outcome: A state in which you either accept cookies (incl. third party) by default or you will be haunted by numbing "reminders" that cookies exist. Usually taking large parts of your small screen estate.

Prior to that you could just disable them if you liked.

One can say that policy makers had good intentions - certainly. However, I can not imagine a valid evaluation that wouldn't conclude this policy as failure.

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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by icebraining on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:28AM (#16865691)
I don't disagree that the policy was a failure, I just disagree with your specific point made in the previous post.
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by fwn on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:39AM (#16865731)
Hmm. I'm not sure I can follow.

The browser not being able to distinguish between essential and non-essential cookies does not change the fact that cookies are and were entirely voluntary.

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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by icebraining on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:51AM (#16865782)
Right, but there's no reason to think the legislators didn't know that, because their goal was not to prevent the use of all cookies.
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by pista on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:57AM (#16866035)
They thought that sites would stop using tracking cookies. But most sites use google analytics.
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