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A standardized protocol with a nice browser native UI?

• ohgodplsno 4y ago
  That was called Do Not Track headers, and websites decided to both ignore it and use it for additional tracking. The current situation is purely a result of advertising companies fucking you over, not because of Europe.
• Hamuko 4y ago
  These companies consider the big green "I consent" button to be the nice UI. Or rather, they want to make sure it's the nicest UI.
• jeroenhd 4y ago
  That would be the dream. Websites won't use it, though, and making a specific protocol mandatory by law would be quite bad in a couple of years when greedy data brokers figure out new ways to exploit people and their data. P3P was an early version of this concept: a browser-native privacy control system. No websites used it, it was only ever implemented by Microsoft, and has been removed from the last remaining browsers a while back. I think Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla coming together to set up a privacy protocol to replace cookie banners would be the right way to handle things. Until usable browser UI exists, there's no way to force the companies currently employing dark patterns to comply.