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What if browsers had an optional "consent to any cookie" setting that sent a `X-Cookie-Consent: Accept` header on every request? This header could be used by we
by olalonde 7y ago
What if browsers had an optional "consent to any cookie" setting that sent a `X-Cookie-Consent: Accept` header on every request? This header could be used by websites to decide whether to display the cookie consent popup. Would that be acceptable to EU regulators?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoX-Cookie-Consent: Accept would be explicitly illegal; consent must be specific. However, I believe X-Cookie-Consent: Deny would be sufficient grounds to not bother with showing cookie popups and assuming the user does not consent. But you don't need that anyway; lack of consent is the default state. I propose a better alternative: just stop doing things requiring consent (which are, by definition, unnecessary, and almost always support an unethical business model), and then you won't have to annoy users with consent popups anymore.
- olalonde 7y agoI'd say a better alternative would be to allow people who don't care about cookie tracking to opt out entirely from the consent popups. It wouldn't change anything for you but it would be a big improvement for people like me who don't mind tracking and are just annoyed by the popups. Too bad that it's now illegal...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt can't be, because we both know how would it end. If you allowed people to auto opt-in, then malicious actors on the web, which currently show you consent popups, would instead use dark patterns to get people who don't want to be tracked to permanently opt-in anyway.