Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites

Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by jsmailes on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:29AM (#45668044)

I believe this is already starting to be solved via Global Privacy Control (GPC) [1], and has already been implemented in Firefox to replace Do Not Track [2]. All that remains is to see if lawmakers will catch up and make it a legal requirement to follow...

[1] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-privacy-control

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by jeroenhd on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:10AM (#45668568)

DNT already had legal weight in the EU. I don't see what problem is being solved by sending a slightly-renamed version of DNT instead, other than the weird privacy law a few American states have implemented that says "if the browser sends the signal by default it's not a legal signal and you should therefore ignore it" (which will probably be updated to neuter GPC if that ever gets any serious attention, the las were clearly written to give trackers the advantage).

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by atlasunshrugged on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:45AM (#45668229)

+1 to this, Firefox has been pushing this for a while but my understanding is really the legal side

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