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Having some way to auto deny consent seems like a good idea. But anything automatic can have serious downsides, what happens if you start denying ‘good’ sites
by mjgs 6y ago
Having some way to auto deny consent seems like a good idea.
But anything automatic can have serious downsides, what happens if you start denying ‘good’ sites without realising it. Should all things that require consent be blocked?
This World Wide Web of permissions sounds like it’s going to be a bit of a nightmare.
- kuschku 6y agoThe default should always be "block everything". When you try to do an action on a website that requires additional consent, you should be asked additionally. Just like the iOS/new Android permissions Dialogs. No to all by default, only allowing specific permissions on demand.
- mjgs 6y agoIt’s so opaque though. Most of the time I have no idea what I’m really consenting to. Every website has a different way of asking, a different way of describing what it’s asking consent for. It often feels like the list of permissions being asked for is way more than what is necessary. Compare that to reading a magazine: - Step 1 - open - Step 2 - read It’s night and day. Eventually it will be too difficult to use the web. I’m think people who make a living from building for the web have not grasped the severity of the problem. If you worked in the movie business and someone said that eventually it would be too difficult to watch a movie, because you would have to give permission left right and centre, you would be worried because that’s bad for business. Your viewers will eventuakly go do something else. Well that’s what’s happening on the web.