Re:Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
by wongarsu on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:20AM
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All that's really missing to make that possible is a way for websites to mark a cookie as either "essential" or "other". Then you can move the UI for accepting/denying cookies to the browser without forcing the user to throw the baby out with the water. You can also add more cookie categories to enable more informed choices (I might be OK with tracking for UX purposes, but not with tracking for marketing).
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Re:Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:56AM
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The consent dialogs aren't really about cookies, though. They are about tracking personal information. Many cookies aren't used for tracking and you can track without using cookies.
Cookies that aren't used for tracking don't require consent though (except for weird corner cases). That only leaves us with "tracking without cookies" which is technically already solved by the "do not track" header (though of course in practice it isn't really solved, mostly because of how browsers implemented it)