Fair point. It would certainly be a better world. Though constantly self-updating browsers are a relatively new thing and the legislators probably wanted to "pr

Fair point. It would certainly be a better world. Though constantly self-updating browsers are a relatively new thing and the legislators probably wanted to "protect" all those people stuck on IE11? And legal precedence wise, laws have been requiring things of websites for a long time, but I can't think of any legislation that has required certain behavior by browser applications themselves. Since browsers, in theory, just implement open web standards, requiring something of them is effectively legislating a forced change into web standards. That's a spooky thought. But let's be real... having individual websites ask for cookie and 3rd party request consent makes opt-out massively less popular than if this was built into the browser. If the "disable ad-targeting cookies" button wasn't hidden behind obtuse UI bespoke to each site, far far more people would opt out of them. I suspect that's a big reason why we got to this arrangement.