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It's a UI problem. If a site wants to track you, it should somehow instruct the browser that it won't let you in with the flag enabled. 1. Add another 400 code
by anonymous 14y ago
It's a UI problem. If a site wants to track you, it should somehow instruct the browser that it won't let you in with the flag enabled.
1. Add another 400 code: "Privacy not allowed".
2. Browser displays dialog box "This site wants to track you. Yea/Nay?".
3. Everybody clicks Yea, since they want the site.
- thenomad 14y agoThe EU cookie law faff from earlier this year shows that's probably not what would happen. Various people tested opt-ins for cookies. It didn't go too well. Instead, any site running a system like that, except those for which there genuinely is no alternative whatsoever, would see their visitor numbers plummet.
- jiggy2011 14y agoProblem is that there's nothing stopping the site from telling the browser that it is not tracking the user and then simply tracking them anyway.