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Old man programmer here. I also think it is trivially implemented. What is hard is having the world agree to and craft such a standard.

• kergonath 6y ago
  Young person programmer here. There are a couple of privacy-oriented browsers. If it were really trivial, it’d have been implemented already. Just look at the cat and mouse game between Apple and advertisers around Safari, and the new fingerprinting techniques that show up every now and then. Not much is trivial in web browsers. There is zero need for standards, which won’t happen anyway because of the power Google has with Chrome.
  • _jal 6y ago
    I think you didn't understand the proposition. Browser authors cannot unilaterally implement a proposal that has server-side and legislative components.
    • kergonath 6y ago
      We cannot rely on server-side protections, because the people who control the servers are often acting against us. Standards won't change that; the linked article is about how website go against a law. We know what change a standard and gentleman's agreement can bring. We've seen it with Do not Track. The only protections we can have right now are client-side.