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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by laumars on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:21AM (#18200890)
Content owners don't want a standard way because they depend on user apathy, confusion and dark patterns to "trick" users into allowing websites to monetise their consumers data.

I say "consumers" rather than "customers" because at this point it feels more like the people buying data are the customers, rather than the actual daily website visitors.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by fnordsensei on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:16PM (#18203944)
Agreed, which is why it would take legislation for orgs to use it, even if a standard was agreed upon.

If it's uniform and learnable, the possibility to trick people shrinks dramatically.

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