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As many have said here, this should be arranged at the browser level. But personally, I hate the disclaimer and having to wade through the options (although the

As many have said here, this should be arranged at the browser level. But personally, I hate the disclaimer and having to wade through the options (although the reject all becomes more common, at least on serious sites), but I do like that now I see who is tracking and not allow it while still seeing a functioning site. And although I am from the EU, my company is not, but I still have to comply with EU rules. Our product has no cookie or consent banners as I choose to make sure we comply and not have tracking products (or collect anything not needed for the functioning of the site) at all on our sites; this is sometimes a little bit more work but I believe the world is better for it. You don't need to track your users and you definitely don't need to pass that valuable data to Google (or CLOUD act; the US gov etc etc) for free so they can make money with your clients.

Nextgrid 2y ago
Pushing for things to be handled at the browser level is a fundamental misunderstanding of the GDPR. Browser-based identifiers such as cookies are only a very small part of it. Furthermore, tracking goes way beyond just cookies, and is done with things like IP address/user-agent tracking and browser fingerprinting - neither requires the cooperation of your browser, it can't do anything about it. If you're talking about codifying the various data processing categories and let the browser communicate that via a header, it's already been tried with Do-Not-Track and was either 1) ignored, or 2) used as one extra part of the browser fingerprint. The root cause is that there's an entire industry of parasites that make their money on breaching the GDPR and have no incentive to implement it. GDPR enforcement itself being lax means that they can get away with such non-compliant implementations. If the GDPR is ever enforced properly, the problem would quickly resolve. The consent flows would first become compliant, and a few months later would be removed entirely along with all the tracking because the opt-in rates are so low that it's pointless to have it. But this would also spell doom for a huge industry of scum, so expect hard pushback at every step.
- anonzzzies 2y ago
  The browser would work if enforced. So not very different from not enforcing gdpr in it's current form. And I am not only talking about cookies; I am talking about that the browser should convey what I want instead of me clicking on buttons every site I get to. But yes, if not enforced, the scum will win anyway.

Nextgrid 2y ago

Pushing for things to be handled at the browser level is a fundamental misunderstanding of the GDPR. Browser-based identifiers such as cookies are only a very small part of it. Furthermore, tracking goes way beyond just cookies, and is done with things like IP address/user-agent tracking and browser fingerprinting - neither requires the cooperation of your browser, it can't do anything about it. If you're talking about codifying the various data processing categories and let the browser communicate that via a header, it's already been tried with Do-Not-Track and was either 1) ignored, or 2) used as one extra part of the browser fingerprint. The root cause is that there's an entire industry of parasites that make their money on breaching the GDPR and have no incentive to implement it. GDPR enforcement itself being lax means that they can get away with such non-compliant implementations. If the GDPR is ever enforced properly, the problem would quickly resolve. The consent flows would first become compliant, and a few months later would be removed entirely along with all the tracking because the opt-in rates are so low that it's pointless to have it. But this would also spell doom for a huge industry of scum, so expect hard pushback at every step.

anonzzzies 2y ago
The browser would work if enforced. So not very different from not enforcing gdpr in it's current form. And I am not only talking about cookies; I am talking about that the browser should convey what I want instead of me clicking on buttons every site I get to. But yes, if not enforced, the scum will win anyway.