I know that, my point still relevant because it was related to:
>There already is a better solution and always has been, it's called setting cookie preferences at the browser level and then leaving it.
This is really not a solution, browser already had a black and white option to allow cookies or not, or allow JS or not. The proposed idea is to give only 1 place where you can accept or not accept tracking, then you want to really read a website or your work/bank forces you to read a page and you have no choice then allow cookies for everything and accept all possible tracking because some HN web dev did thinks is mmuch smarter then a group of consultants. lawers and privacy advocates.
If tracking is legal then Allow/Disallow tracking should be per website and always should be 100% transparency on what is tracked and shared with, Tech people could create browser APIs for example, you could have a in browser cookie popup where web devs could populate the text message about "We care about privacy" , an array where web devs can populate with the names, links and terms of use for the 100+ partners. Then all websites will share same native popup, and implement it correctly with no dark patterns, there could be a 3 line extension to click allow or not allow for people that really want to accept or not accept. But this browser APIs won't happen because Google controls the web , Mozilla is on it's last breath and Safari is still screwing around with missing JS and Webgl features and other bullshit.
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Also a simple law as propsed with "make cookies a setting for all websites per browser) is not good since you can use the localstorage,fingerprinting or other tricks to go around the law, so proposed idea is bad.
>There already is a better solution and always has been, it's called setting cookie preferences at the browser level and then leaving it.
This is really not a solution, browser already had a black and white option to allow cookies or not, or allow JS or not. The proposed idea is to give only 1 place where you can accept or not accept tracking, then you want to really read a website or your work/bank forces you to read a page and you have no choice then allow cookies for everything and accept all possible tracking because some HN web dev did thinks is mmuch smarter then a group of consultants. lawers and privacy advocates.
If tracking is legal then Allow/Disallow tracking should be per website and always should be 100% transparency on what is tracked and shared with, Tech people could create browser APIs for example, you could have a in browser cookie popup where web devs could populate the text message about "We care about privacy" , an array where web devs can populate with the names, links and terms of use for the 100+ partners. Then all websites will share same native popup, and implement it correctly with no dark patterns, there could be a 3 line extension to click allow or not allow for people that really want to accept or not accept. But this browser APIs won't happen because Google controls the web , Mozilla is on it's last breath and Safari is still screwing around with missing JS and Webgl features and other bullshit.
Edit: Also a simple law as propsed with "make cookies a setting for all websites per browser) is not good since you can use the localstorage,fingerprinting or other tricks to go around the law, so proposed idea is bad.