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The unintended consequence of poorly thought out regulations (good or bad) can be wild. I’m still having to deal with making some sort of legal agreement with

• Nicholas_C 3mo ago
  I'm confused on why browsers can't automatically handle the cookies pop ups. It's beyond annoying and something that should just be automated since my preferences don't change.
  • duxup 3mo ago
    It should be very easy. But for whatever reasons they chose to make this the people’s problem… constantly. Same goes for age ID things too.
  • watwut 3mo ago
    The companies strongly opposed such thing in browsers. That is why.
  • roundabout-host 3mo ago
    Google started to lobby by using a dramatisation: "if it is easy to reject advertising cookies, the whole Web advertising industry will go extinct!"
• lionkor 3mo ago
  Consentomatic does most common cookie dialogs, according to your settings. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat... It also exists for other browsers. I am not affiliated,but I have it on my devices and even on my phone, it's quite good and I very rarely get cookie popups now.
  • kobalsky 3mo ago
    then you have an extension with full access to everything. unless it's one of the big guys, devs either sell the extensions or get hacked, it has happened multiple times.
• stymaar 3mo ago
  > I’m still having to deal with making some sort of legal agreement with EVERY website I visit over cookies constantly… I just don’t care anymore / click whatever. That's the problem when you want to be pro-business while keeping the vague intent of protecting privacy. They didn't mandate cookie banner, you can either not track or add a cookie banner. Of course businesses living off surveillance capitalism will chose the cookie banner. They could have banned tracking altogether, and chose not to because “it's bad for business”.
• BoingBoomTschak 3mo ago
  uBlock has lists you can enable for most of these.