Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law

Re:Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law by onel on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:38PM (#39746702)

I think this is a good analogy and I agree that the intent of the law was not to force websites to have a cookie banner, it was just the side effect.

What I think we are missing is a browser option/API that lets the user choose the acceptable tracking level. Similar to the do not track header but more fine grained.

As we are missing that, extensions are doing a good job ATM

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/consent-o-matic/mdj...

https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

I found pretty late about Consent-o matic and it saved me a ton of time handling banners. It's exactly what we should have built-in the browser.

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Re:Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law by bmicraft on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:32PM (#39748915)

We have that, it's called DNT. Unfortunately companies argue that:

- it's not really a user choice when some browsers set it by default and therefore ignore it

- it's set globally for a browser but a user might want to give away their privacy to my specific site

... and show the banner anyway

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