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Re:I don't care about cookies by tomjen3 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:46AM (#26521288)
A much better way: you must ask for consent through something like navigator.cookieconsent, which will trigger the browser specific resolver (that may, or may not, show a prompt for the user depending on her choices). If you set a cookie before this, it will be silently ignored.

To work with js free sites, you can feed the same information through in a tag for the HTML.

We don't need an exemption for necessary cookies, since the only reason a site would need to set a necessary cookie is to remember the users choice, and the browser can do that better.

If the user logs in, by filling out a username and password field, a single cookie should automatically be saved.

I imagine Firefox is the best browser to get this started in. Anybody has any pointers to how to get the ball moving?

Re:I don't care about cookies by ratww on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:04AM (#26521755)
> Anybody has any pointers to how to get the ball moving?

Maybe writing an extension as a proof-of-concept, then finding someone who's a member of W3C to propose it as a standard.