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What does this have to do with DNT vs cookie consent popups?

• mindslight 4y ago
  It doesn't have to do with the distinction between DNT and cookie nags. I was responding to this: "There's also nothing stopping a website from showing a cookie banner, getting a user who clicks on "no cookies" and tracking that user anyway". You seemed to be implying that since a website can technically ignore a user's (lack of) consent regardless, that the popups are unnecessary. But legally, the concept of consent is very significant. The popup mechanism itself isn't designed for you. I do agree that honest businesses don't need "consent" nag walls, as nobody actually wants their personal information datamined as a feature. But the actual dynamic is that these businesses are trying to preserve the status quo of user surveillance by obtaining fig-leaf consent. And the "best" way to do this (from their perspective) is an obtrusive nag wall that makes it easier to submit rather than reject (whether by accident or through attrition). So nag walls are just a similar user-hostile solution just like surveillance based advertising itself. And the main way the dynamic of malicious compliance will go away is further enforcement, although I fully support technical solutions that delete nag walls as well.