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Re:Terms and Conditions Game by zeta0134 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:14AM (#27194131)
uBlock Origin has a handy filter under "annoyances" that seems to clear out several of these. Not perfect, but it helps.

I'm still baffled at the way this was rolled out. Why are we putting the requirement on website authors, and not browser vendors? There's a lot fewer of those to regulate.

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Re:Terms and Conditions Game by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:41AM (#27195212)
> Why are we putting the requirement on website authors, and not browser vendors?

Because the website authors are the ones misbehaving. Why would the browser vendors pay the price?

I'm in complete support for punishing any abuse of market position from the browser vendors too, but that's not the answer you seek. Anyway, the correct course of action is to punish the website authors further for using those anti-patterns.

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