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

Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by yetihehe on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:30AM (#45668875)

The alternative is that they tweak the laws without much thought...

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by immibis on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:19PM (#45671448)

Agile laws might not be so terrible.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by JadeNB on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:23PM (#45671519)

Counteropinion: agile laws would be absolutely terrible. Either people wouldn't take them seriously because they're going to change in a few minutes anyway, or people would take them seriously and be bound by law by the equivalent of late-night untested code that seemed like it should work.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by _carbyau_ on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:03PM (#45676681)

Charitable interpretation of their comment: Law is implemented and then rapidly improved upon.

But yes, I think your take is more realistic as any measure that allows rapid changes also allows willful politics to rapidly make a mess.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by account42 on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:41AM (#45692362)

Imagine being charged for something that you didn't yet know was a crime because you didn't watch the morning news.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by dgfitz on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:58AM (#45670136)

Isn’t that the current status quo?

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by lukeschlather on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:17AM (#45670455)

The GDPR has over 100k words, and those words are certainly less than 0.01% of the thought that has gone into this problem.

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