Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by contravariant on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:34PM
(#19382739)
It's too bad nobody came up with the simple idea of forcing browsers to ask permission before sending personally identifying information everywhere.
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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by monocasa on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:42PM
(#19382833)
It's amazing what's personally identifiable though. Browser fingerprinting combined with ever present analytics scripts gets you most of the way there.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by J5892 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:20PM
(#19383321)
I need a plugin that spoofs my fingerprint as a 74-year-old shut-in with no money, terrible credit, and no social connections.
Basically someone companies have no interest in advertising to or tracking.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by andrenotgiant on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:56PM
(#19383034)
people would just begin to ignore those too, like they ignore app permission grants
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by sli on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:01PM
(#19383102)
That type reductive reasoning can be trivially applied to any proposed solution (for nearly any problem). You can't really force anything, eventually you just have to accept that some folks won't go along with it, and let them make their own mistakes.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by ihuman on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:58PM
(#19383045)
How would that solve anything? The comment you are replying to doesn't want to be asked for permission for cookies. The commentor wants all the cookie requests to be accepted automatically.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by jsharf on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:01PM
(#19383101)
He's suggesting making the decision once, per-browser, not per-website, whether or not to allow cookies. Then the browser can include this information in the HTTP header, so the website never needs to ask you.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by ihuman on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:11PM
(#19383229)
Oh, Ok. I initially read it as the browsers should ask the user whenever they send personally identifying info, which is basically the status quo. Thanks for correcting me.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by contravariant on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:16PM
(#19383282)
I mean, making the decision per-website is fine as well if that's what you prefer.
Most importantly though a browser can remember you declined cookies.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by bo1024 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:51PM
(#19382963)
There are easy ways to do this though, I use uMatrix.
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by kokokokoko on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:52PM
(#19382975)
The joke is that this is a browser setting. Its just set to "Always accept without asking" by default.