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When you instruct your browser to accept cookies for the few websites you log into, your browser is unable to limit acceptance only to the cookies that are stri
by Rygian 4y ago
When you instruct your browser to accept cookies for the few websites you log into, your browser is unable to limit acceptance only to the cookies that are strictly mandatory for proper functioning.
Instead, your browser will accept any cookie, including unnecessary ones, because it can't tell the difference.
Therefore, you cannot enforce consent at the browser level.
- closeparen 4y agoSession cookies and user accounts are obviously not necessary for the proper functioning of discussion boards - 4chan is one of the most popular in the world. Shall we haul the Hacker News admins off to jail? I'm not trying to be cheeky here. Who can say what the "necessary" and "proper" functioning of a given website is? You can always imagine a similar-but-different website. I think usually people are talking about ad-related stuff, but then why not regulate that in particular?