This change is about blocking third-party cookies, while cookie banners also include notification around first party cookies.

For example, first-party cookies used to implement analytics are included. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...

The better way to do this would be if you could configure your preferences once and for all in the client which then transparently communicates it to the website providers.

The DoNotTrack header didn't work.

But there is a difference between a volunteer action by some browser developers, and the law. I think the bigger problem is that there are different policies in place in different legislation, so it would be very challenging to implement something that satisfies the needs.

These banners are there to fool you into accepting all cookies. They are basically a dark pattern at this point. The GDPR and the so called cookie law state that strictly functional cookies have implicit consent by the visitor. Even selfhosted tracking via cookies is considered functional. The GDPR/cookie law also does not enforce those banners. They only state that the user has to consent to every form of tracking.

So every time you see one of these huge banners it is the deliberate effort by the website owner to trick you into accepting the tracking.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Nobody wants to argue with GDPR regulators which cookies are "strictly necessary" and they certainly don't want to pay lawyers to review the purpose and use of every cookie.

It's not a trick, it's just that the easiest path for all sites to comply is to obtain blanket consent for everything.

Classic perverse incentive.

Simple, make a law that makes consent via banners invalid.

Spoiler alert: we have that law. The GDPR as it stands outlaws annoying/misleading consent banners.

Next step: fire the incompetent people staffing the various data protection agencies and replace them with someone that would actually enforce said law.

I just imagined that video of a cat in zero-gravity