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Or, it would just be safer to put up the cookie banner to avoid confrontation with others without such a nuianced understanding of the cookie law. I could imag

Or, it would just be safer to put up the cookie banner to avoid confrontation with others without such a nuianced understanding of the cookie law. I could imagine cookies being implemented by the browser in the same way that webcam permission is requested. Something along the lines of "this website is requesting to store cookie "domain;X with purposes Y". This would make setting millions of cookies a UX sin, and cookies would only be set on predictable user interactions such as logging in. Unfortunately the definitions of "purpose" will still need to be defined by regulation to be enforceable. Once you can identify a user, there's no technical limitation that can prevent tracking.

dogma1138 6y ago
It used to be the case I distinctly remember IE during the Windows 95 era and maybe 98 as well popping up questions asking you if you want to accept cookies. The whole cookies acceptance pop up was also in the original cookies spec somewhere down the line browsers stopped asking mostly due to the fact that sites got dependent on cookies more and more especially in the early days where there was little to no session management on the server side so you had to either use cookies to store all the state information or encode it into the URL and have your CGI script parse through it.
- marcodave 6y ago
  I was there, and it was one of the first thing for which you clicked in the "yes and don't bother anymore" tick to make the dialog silent in the future. It was kinda pointless back then, but also there was no data protection law, and data collection and profiling was not a thing. So, what if those dialogs would come back? Maybe with a more user friendly UI to accept site's ad tracking cookies or not, and remember the choice for the future? Would user care about them? would browser vendors care about them? would sites acknowledge the choice made?

dogma1138 6y ago

It used to be the case I distinctly remember IE during the Windows 95 era and maybe 98 as well popping up questions asking you if you want to accept cookies. The whole cookies acceptance pop up was also in the original cookies spec somewhere down the line browsers stopped asking mostly due to the fact that sites got dependent on cookies more and more especially in the early days where there was little to no session management on the server side so you had to either use cookies to store all the state information or encode it into the URL and have your CGI script parse through it.

marcodave 6y ago
I was there, and it was one of the first thing for which you clicked in the "yes and don't bother anymore" tick to make the dialog silent in the future. It was kinda pointless back then, but also there was no data protection law, and data collection and profiling was not a thing. So, what if those dialogs would come back? Maybe with a more user friendly UI to accept site's ad tracking cookies or not, and remember the choice for the future? Would user care about them? would browser vendors care about them? would sites acknowledge the choice made?