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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A better solution would be to force sites to care about the Do Not Track browser setting that currently does nothing as told by the browsers themselves.

[–] drugo@sh.itjust.works 59 points 10 months ago

Exactly this. The goal of requiring explicit cookie consent/refusal is admirable, but the implementation of cookie banners is both useless and terrible. We already have a way to communicate to websites whether we're alright with cookies or not, they're called HTTP headers.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The irony of DNT becoming another data point to fingerprint you with sucks.