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> Imagine how much better the web would be if cookie consent was a browser protocol on top of HTTP headers. Imagine how much better the web would be if the bro
by drdaeman 3y ago
> Imagine how much better the web would be if cookie consent was a browser protocol on top of HTTP headers.
Imagine how much better the web would be if the browsers would have a built-in ability to accept or reject cookies on a per-site basis... oh, wait, they do. And had that since forever (or at least IE5). Almost no one used that because it was obnoxious to have a popup on every website. So browser vendors moved those settings to the farthest corners of the most obscure configuration dialogs... and then the politicians brought those prompts back (but in a crappy, non-standardized, not-even-working way).
- theptip 3y agoRight, but to be clear the cookie consent thing was about purpose limitation, not blocking all cookies outright. The idea was that core functionality shouldn’t break if you block unnecessary tracking, which the old cookie blockers couldn’t achieve, which was why politicians got involved in the first place. Great idea, terrible implementation.
- drdaeman 3y agoP3P also existed, but no one had any respect for it beyond sending it fake policies to get their third-party cookies enabled.