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If companies had respected the Do Not Track and browser vendors had made it easier to adopt we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we are in now.
by Poppys 4y ago
If companies had respected the Do Not Track and browser vendors had made it easier to adopt we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we are in now.
- resonious 4y agoIf we really cared about tracking and privacy, browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies). It's full-on insane to use the law to force every website developer to add their own cookie banner when we could just change the browser and be done with it.
- Yujf 4y agoOr, the website could just not track you and thus not require a cookie banner?
- resonious 4y agoThey could, but ultimately they want to track us. People also want to perform CSRF attacks. So what do we do? Make a law against CSRF? Or change the browsers to make it much harder?
- still_grokking 4y agoYou've just said: > It's full-on insane to use the law to force every website developer to add their own cookie banner […] Which is obvious FUD. And this comment now makes it clear that you actually knew that you're spreading FUD.
- input_sh 4y ago> browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies) Firefox has that built into its tracking protection. I don't know what's it set to by default, but it took me three clicks to reach the setting. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-fir...
- lkbm 4y ago> browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies). Hasn't that been a standard browser setting since the 1990s? I remember Netscape had it.