alt Hacker NewsCookie banners exist because it is a dark pattern companies use to get you to opt into marketing cookies by making the easiest thing the worst choice.
This could all be handled by settings in the browser, only if the sites themselves listened to the users' browser preferences.
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whywhywhywhy • today at 9:36 AM
If sites don’t listen to user preferences why would the cookie banner listen to my consent.
Ultimately there’s no good excuse for the banner solution.
theknarf • today at 9:10 AM
"Do Not Track" (DNT) is already a browser setting. It just doesn't enforce anything, nor does anyone respect it.
olalonde • today at 8:04 AM
Lawmakers should have foreseen this would be the consequence of the law and not have gone through with it.
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Agree. Its like in some countries you put a sticker on the mail box "no advertisement, please" and its illegal tor postman to deliver you ad brochures. Same could have been possible with browsers, but oh no, now you have to go out to each postman ant tell him explicitly that you do not want ads, and postman has no memory, if you tel him that you don't want ads. He can come back ten minutes later and you have to tell him again.