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Re:No Cookie for You by lez on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:16PM (#25458417)
What keeps back Mozilla to implement this setting and lobby for a general Web API for expressing cookie consent? As far as I can tell, their users would be extremely happy about that.
Re:No Cookie for You by Sebb767 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:44PM (#25458758)
Because it won't take off. Right now, the advertisers are basically hoping for you to be too lazy to click around ten minutes to find the 'no'-option. If every user would be presented with a fairly weighted chance once, hardly anyone would click yes. Accepting this standard would undermine their business even more.
Re:No Cookie for You by munchbunny on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:37PM (#25458681)
That existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

It failed horribly because it was voluntary. But now that it's a GDPR requirement, perhaps that might have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.

Re:No Cookie for You by dullgiulio on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:03PM (#25458990)
No, it failed because it acts on the wrong side. If you don't want to be tracked you shouldn't send cookies in your request.