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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by techjamie on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:49AM (#45670958)
DNT is considered deprecated in favor of GPC, which has legal backing in places with internet privacy laws. Funnily, Chrome still supports DNT but you need an extension to send a GPC header. Almost like the advertisement company wouldn't want people enabling legal privacy protections.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by fmajid on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:08PM (#45671270)
GPC compliance is already the law in California. I don’t know why the EU has been so slow at making it legally binding. That said, existing cookie popups that don’t have “Reject All” as prominently placed as “Accept All” are already illegal but widespread, in no small part due to deliberate sabotage by the Irish DPA, so don’t expect GPC compliance to fare any better until consumer rights associations like NOYB.eu are allowed to initiate direct enforcement actions.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by kuschku on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:10PM (#45672135)
In Germany, DNT is legally binding, but GPC is not.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by account42 on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:01AM (#45692093)
Sounds like we need browsers to select the correct header based on server IP lol.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by juancroldan on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:01PM (#45675096)
Plus, all GPC extensions advertised by the offical GPC pack other unsolicited privacy features and freemium models. I ended up building an extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gpc-enabler/ilknagn...
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by extraduder_ire on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:32AM (#45681088)
EU law typically has a lead time of at least two years.