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Guest0918231 | 5 years ago
1. When the user starts the browser for the first time, ask if they want to allow tracking cookies on all websites.
2. When the user visits a website, pass that tracking answer as true or false. Firefox and Chrome have buttons beside the URL already for 'Site Settings'. Allow users to override their global tracking setting with a per site settings there.
This would be infinitely better than the mess we have now, where every website gives us a pop-up with an intentionally confusing interface. Why can't I say 'No' to tracking once? Why do I need to do it countless times a day, each time navigating a new and confusing interface?
chriswarbo|5 years ago
Would it be legal/ethical to allow automated pre-commitment to all terms and conditions that nefarious sites may choose to scatter around their pages, many of which won't have been written until after the user had ticked this "agree to everything" box?
> every website gives us a pop-up with an intentionally confusing interface
Any site doing this is breaking the law. Report them please.
> Why can't I say 'No' to tracking once?
Because sites which track you don't want it. After all, they're the ones who invented "cookie banners"; and they could choose to get rid of them by just, you know, not tracking people. Yet they don't.
maccard|5 years ago
To who? What do I say? The issue with GDPR is that it's for all intents and purposes unpoliced and unpoliceable unless you happen to have sway with a local regulatory body.
I live in the UK, and ICO are toothless. Ive filed multiple complaints - inability to opt out, misuse of PII for advertising purposes, and each time have received a cookie cutter response telling me to report it to the company and respond to ICO if it's not to my satisfaction. That was the last I heard of every complaint, despite me following up.
Guest0918231|5 years ago
Isn't everyone 'agreeing to everything' outside of the GDPR when they visit sites now, without the option of saying 'no'? Isn't everyone covered by GDPR being tricked into 'agreeing to everything' at the moment? Giving users the ability to disable the tracking aspect across all sites with one simple setting seems like a plus here.
> Any site doing this is breaking the law. Report them please.
Has any action been taken against a site for making their opt-out option more complicated than their opt-in option? Why try to regulate how millions of sites prompt users for consent instead of a few browsers?
> Because sites which track you don't want it. After all, they're the ones who invented "cookie banners"; and they could choose to get rid of them by just, you know, not tracking people. Yet they don't.
They didn't invent cookie banners, they added them because they were required by law. The same law could remove cookie banners and require the sites to respect a browser cookie.