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I am not a fan of the cookie banners at all. If anything I feel like browsers should implement it as it already does with other security settings (access to loc
by todd3834 8y ago
I am not a fan of the cookie banners at all. If anything I feel like browsers should implement it as it already does with other security settings (access to location, camera, etc…) and then people can decide to allow all websites. Blacklist, whitelist whatever. Why are we making every site implement a completely unique interface with different verbiage?
- syrrim 8y agoCookie warnings don't show up for any old cookie usage. HN has no cookie warnings, despite having accounts and logins. Cookie warnings are shown when the "evil bit" or the "color" of the cookie is set; that is, there is no way for the browser to know when a cookie should require a warning and when it shouldn't.
- zanny 8y agoBecause its done under legal compulsion rather than web standards good faith. Cookies predated the more democratic process by which the web evolves today, and it was outside the EUs power to just ask the likes of the dying Netscape / Microsoft / etc to all standardize on this feature at the spec level, especially when nobody was really much following web standards at all in the early 2000s. All those settings in browsers that let you control access to your camera, location, etc aren't part of legal compliance, they are just there because Google, Mozilla, sometimes Apple and Microsoft all agreed this is a good best behavior to avoid getting regulated on again. If the EU started mandating an opt-in system for camera access you can bet most websites would start dumping pop up banners about it regardless of if all the browsers supported the regulation already just to avoid culpability.
- Mirioron 8y agoBut you've had control over cookies for at least 15 years in your browser.