The idea that these problems should be solved in a way that means I have to have a legal agreement with every webpage just for viewing is absurd.
I don't make legal agreements when I walk into a shop, it makes even less sense on the web.
The cookie banner situation is an administrative solution that sounds nice in legal terms, but where the practical impact I suspect for most folks is they don't get more privacy / more ability to assert their rights ... they are just annoyed and click around to make the thing go away.
zb3•8mo ago
> they are just annoyed and click around to make the thing go away.
That's precisely why we need the "Reject all" button.
RetroTechie•8mo ago
True in the current context.
But this really should have been a web standard, loooong ago. User sets a couple of settings once, browser & webserver send a few packets back & forth, done. No need for users in that loop on every single website (not to mention traffic for downloading scripts to show dialog boxes, list of vendors or whatever).
The whole cookie thing (as we have it now) is one big waste of resources & user's time.
LocalH•8mo ago
Isn't that essentially what "Do Not Track" was? Then Microsoft defaulted that setting to "on", which advertisers summarily used as an excuse to just ignore the whole thing.
duxup•8mo ago
The idea that these problems should be solved in a way that means I have to have a legal agreement with every webpage just for viewing is absurd.
I don't make legal agreements when I walk into a shop, it makes even less sense on the web.
The cookie banner situation is an administrative solution that sounds nice in legal terms, but where the practical impact I suspect for most folks is they don't get more privacy / more ability to assert their rights ... they are just annoyed and click around to make the thing go away.
zb3•8mo ago
That's precisely why we need the "Reject all" button.
RetroTechie•8mo ago
But this really should have been a web standard, loooong ago. User sets a couple of settings once, browser & webserver send a few packets back & forth, done. No need for users in that loop on every single website (not to mention traffic for downloading scripts to show dialog boxes, list of vendors or whatever).
The whole cookie thing (as we have it now) is one big waste of resources & user's time.
LocalH•8mo ago