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- technology@lemmy.world
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined
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A major political entity admitting mistake and correcting based on feedback. How refreshing.
If you’re a safari user (desktop and mobile): https://oblador.github.io/hush/
The banners should stay. If a site doesn’t use cookies, you don’t get a banner. The sites choose for themselves if they want to use cookies and put up an obnoxious banner, or not use cookies.
I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn’t have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.
I trust they’ll do a good job focusing on privacy rather than outright going back to “no banner, cookies for everyone!”
There are no cookie banners, at least not nessesary ones. There is just a consent requirement for processing personal data.
Install privacy badge, turn on “automatically send do not track” and those things all just melt away when you go to a new site as it processes almost all sites automatically.
The “do not track” is really just you asking them politely not to track you, they are not obligated to stop tracking…more often than not, it is completely ignored and they track you anyway.
…and the request itself can be used as a data point for tracking.
California’s regulations have teeth but there are some exclusions and exemptions, I guess like most laws it’ll only be followed if suing and getting damages is easy and results made public.
Is it possible to do this on mobile phone browsers?
Yup, that’s where it’s the most valuable to not have to drag fingers around and whatnot, easier if you needed to deal with popup on PC with mouse and keyboard and whatnot.
Can’t wait until 28 when people realize how nice cell phones used to be.
