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> The new rule will be more user-friendly as browser settings will provide for an easy way to accept or refuse tracking cookies and other identifiers. Browsers

• notriddle 6y ago
  The browser knows that the cookie exists, but it has no way of knowing how the server is going to use it, or what the cookie is actually for. A single cookie might even be simultaneously both, and force the user to accept cross-site tracking in order for the site to work correctly. I guess there's complication zero-knowledge proofs that could solve this problem, but they're too slow right now.
  • gruez 6y ago
    >The browser knows that the cookie exists, but it has no way of knowing how the server is going to use it, or what the cookie is actually for. There was a standard for that, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P. There's no reason why something similar can't be implemented now.
• anoncake 6y ago
  Browsers don't have a way to block tracking cookies without collateral damage.