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Re:SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup ec... by slimsag on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:07PM (#35405998)
Yes we'd be better off if cookies were removed.

But if it was only Firefox, people would simply add banners saying "Firefox is not supported." since it's only like 3% of marketshare these days.

Re:SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup ec... by dmix on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:32PM (#35406895)
You apparently missed the entire point. My point wasn't that one browser would/should do it, it was whether this whole moral outrage at companies using it could ever generate a plausible scenario where we as a community decided to not allow it and actually enforced it (aka why I said Firefox "could at least make a stink about it"... which they haven't nor has any serious tech privacy group called to block cookies wholesale).

If we are going to allow such a system then there will be natural consequences. These cookie prompts are a fools gold security theatre solution that has done nothing to improve privacy. Yet it has geneatred a mountain of UX annoyances since every single one is designed different.

Likewise blaming companies for using a limited set of cookies (see: not supercookies) is silly. There's a million legit usecases and the alternative of banning cookies is not a real solution. Stopping fingerprinting is a whole other issue.

Suggesting otherwise re: cookies is disingenuous.