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Re:Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law by greggsy on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:48AM (#39743622)
I’ve often wondered if necessary cookies could just be carved out and designed (and named) differently to improve handling. You could then just configure your browser to inherently accept the benign <biscuits/bikkies> from a site, which would then only ask for non-essential ones.

The real nirvana, IMO, would be better sandboxing between sites.

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Re:Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law by nolok on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:55AM (#39743710)
Browser based solution not mandated by law but made by the industry wouldn't work, because all 4 major browser vendor makes significant revenues from Ads.

At a time a solution appeared with "do not track", and we ended up with the industry making sure it was as toothless as possible, opt-in, and google pushing hard to control the browser market.

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