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> because websites will become increasingly annoying over time. You could have websites emit headers in responses that will offer the appropriate regulatory co
by supriyo-biswas 2y ago
> because websites will become increasingly annoying over time.
You could have websites emit headers in responses that will offer the appropriate regulatory compliance warnings, which the user agent can surface in an appropriate way such as in an address bar icon or a dedicated button, and allow the user to ignore them entirely, upon request.
Although not directly related to this particular article, this would also be a way in which porn bans can be easily enforced (e.g. Virginia) instead of requiring intrusive user verification - the website software might emit a "X-Regulatory-Info: porn" header, which parental control software can then look for; and any websites not emitting that header would be considered illegal.
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- giancarlostoro 2y agoThis is kind of what I'm thinking, or even an API for the ones where you need to store information like "I only want x cookies" but just in some uniform way.
- captn3m0 2y agoP3P tried this and failed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
- giancarlostoro 2y agoWas that one mandated by policy though? I don't think it was, it was something browsers wished websites would adopt, and since they didn't now we've got stupid web elements that are unnecessarily shoved in our faces. Meanwhile tracking people has probably gotten worse and worse over the years (for the consumer). What I'm proposing is if we're going to legislate the web, make it smarter and intuitive. Unfortunately the people writing these laws rarely get feedback from people who actually build websites or care about end-users.