[sciolistse]

while we're wishing for impossible things i'd also love if the consent dialogs were an actual standard. if sites could describe a list of what they needed consent for and the browser supplied the actual dialog, so i could just configure it to always allow all if i wanted to, that would be fantastic.

[paulryanrogers]

Or even better a header to signal the wish to not be tracked. We could call it "Do Not Track", and enforce with laws.

[joshuaissac]

> if the consent dialogs were an actual standard. if sites could describe a list of what they needed consent for and the browser supplied the actual dialog

There is a standard for this called P3P, which was implemented by Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge before eventually dropping support for it. But there was nothing requiring website owners to use it. Various data protection regulations across the world require them to obtain consent for collecting data, but they are not required to recognise consent or non-consent expressed via P3P settings.

These standards will only get used if the website owners are forced to use them, either by regulators or by monopolistic/oligopolistic market forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

[buzer]

As far as I understand at least some businesses in California are required to honor GPC.

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#collapse8b

> Under law, it must be honored by covered businesses as a valid consumer request to stop the sale or sharing of personal information.