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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by goodluckchuck on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:25AM (#30662028)
Companies have always had to ask for permission to store cookies. The user / user’s browser decides whether to allow them, how long to keep them for, which sites will be allowed to access which cookies.

This should have been / should be fixed on the user end.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by II2II on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:41AM (#30662221)
Fixes were attempted on the user end decades ago. What did companies do? They ensured the end user was flooded with browser initiated cookie requests. Notice a parallel with the current situation?

Browsers now use better approaches, but nothing is guaranteed when web developers try to circumvent the protections because they cannot accept that no means no.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by nerdponx on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:14PM (#30663366)
Malicious compliance in action.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by layer8 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:48PM (#30663052)
Browsers rejecting cookies just leads to the website displaying a popup to please enable cookies or else you’re not allowed to see the content. That’s actually even less user-friendly.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by Nextgrid on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:24PM (#30663496)
Data processing consent covers much more than just cookies.
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