[transcriptase]

More evidence the EU solved the wrong problem. Instead of mandating cookie banners, mandate a single global “fuck off” switch: one-click, automatic opt-out from any feature/setting/telemetry/tracking/training that isn’t strictly required or clearly beneficial to the user as an individual. If it’s mainly there for data collection, ads, attribution, “product improvement”, or monetization, it should be off by default and remain that way so long as the “fuck off” option is toggled. Burden of proof on the provider. Fines exceeding what it takes to get growth teams and KPI hounds to have legal coach them on what “fuck off” means and why they need to.

[croes]

Remember what happened do the DNT flag in the browser?

They just ignored until it was gone.

If you don’t give them a way to trick and annoy you into accept tracking they ignore completely what you want

[wolvoleo]

DNT was useless because it didn't have a legal basis. It would have been amazing if they had mandated something like this instead of the cookie walls.

Advertisers ignored it because they could. And complained that it defaulted to on, however cookies are supposed to be opt-in so this is how it's supposed to work anyway.

[memoriuaysj]

remember how all of HN and tech people were saying that DNT is a Micro$oft scam designed to break privacy because it was enabled by default without requiring user action?

to the point that Apache web server developers added a custom rule in the default httpd.conf to strip away incoming DNT headers !!!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...

[adastra22]

DNT wasn't actually legally mandated.