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And if someone wrote a browser extension that hides those popups (or makes them scrollable instead of sticky), the user would not need to do anything to reject

And if someone wrote a browser extension that hides those popups (or makes them scrollable instead of sticky), the user would not need to do anything to reject cookies.

tpush 5y ago
Exactly. This is an absolute key point I find most people miss in these discussions. GDPR fundamentally changes the default of whether tracking is allowed to occur or not. If a user browses the web automatically blocking (just deleting/blocking the element, not automatically clicking accept) every consent pop-up, the website is not allowed to track them nor is it allowed to block the user from using the website. If you had such a browser extension, and if websites were actually conforming to the law, all EU users could browse the web without ever seeing any popup and without ever getting tracked.
andrewaylett 5y ago
This one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... Works brilliantly :).
- adhesive_wombat 5y ago
  Note that sometimes that may accept cookies (not sure when it does that, but it does say it can do).