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Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by nickburns on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:13PM (#42942048)
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Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by Frieren on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:26PM (#42942224)
> "Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners"

The HN title is nonsensical. A technical specification cannot replace a law.

From the linked document from w3c:

> GPC could potentially be used to indicate rights in other jurisdictions as well. For example, the GDPR potentially affords data subjects the right to limit the sharing of personal information under Articles 7 and 21.

So, this standard may help to better comply with GDPR. Nowhere in the document there is any indication of "replacing" GDPR being a goal or an effect of the proposed standard.

Thank you for sharing the link. I hope for a better title, thou.

Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by BostonFern on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:56PM (#42942531)
The title refers to the banners, not any laws.
Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by ChocolateGod on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:05AM (#42945461)
Not a lawyer but if I remember correctly the laws don't even require cookie banners, instead they were invented as a hostile implementation of said laws and replicated because people thought they were required.
Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by daveoc64 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:07PM (#42942650)
As this proposal does not cover consent for everything a "cookie banner" would, the title is simply wrong.
Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by halb on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:17PM (#42943263)
Finally, a better alternative to the do-not-stab header https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/
Re:Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners by egberts1 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:07AM (#42947363)
Ummm, this one spec is trying to accomodate the world's requirement for ... tracking. Enough said.

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