[RetroTechie]

True in the current context.

But this really should have been a web standard, loooong ago. User sets a couple of settings once, browser & webserver send a few packets back & forth, done. No need for users in that loop on every single website (not to mention traffic for downloading scripts to show dialog boxes, list of vendors or whatever).

The whole cookie thing (as we have it now) is one big waste of resources & user's time.

[LocalH]

Isn't that essentially what "Do Not Track" was? Then Microsoft defaulted that setting to "on", which advertisers summarily used as an excuse to just ignore the whole thing.