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It shouldn't be by law, it should just be part of web standards that you can set your cookies preferences once and for all and all websites should respect that
by dybber 4y ago
It shouldn't be by law, it should just be part of web standards that you can set your cookies preferences once and for all and all websites should respect that setting. I guess browser vendors and whoever else sits in these W3 consortiums like their cookies too much.
- johndhi 4y agoAgreed, though the issue is that the very same technology can be used for perfectly acceptable and desired use cases (online shopping cart) or distasteful ones (behavioral advertising). So it's hard to set a strict standard.
- rolph 4y agoalways poison your cookies when your done with them.
- shadowgovt 4y agoThis was attempted with the "Do Not Track" header, but that initiative collapsed (lack of vendor support, lack of clarity in the spec regarding what it meant to not "track" someone, and ultimately it got yanked from Safari because it was yet another bit that malicious site operators could use for browser fingerprinting purposes). The "Global Privacy Control" header is apparently the second attempt to cook this goose.
- shkkmo 4y agoThe fundamental flaw to the DNT was the lack of any sort of penalty for non-compliance. There was no penalty for individual advertisers from either the government or from industry bodies. There was also no penalty to the advertising industry as a whole in the form of more stringent privacy laws.
- cush 4y agoAbsolutely should have been built into the browser
- Xelbair 4y agoIf only there was such thing, maybe call it 'do not track', and put it in the header of request. Oh wait - it was a thing, and was used as just another data point for tracking.