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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 299 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It would be nice if the options weren't like "Enable all cookies" and "navigate 4 menus that try to convince you to enable all cookies."

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 181 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would be better if you could set your preference on the browser once and never have to mess with it again unless you want to have exceptions for specific sites

[–] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In theory this is done. There is a Do Not Track (DNT) header that is browser defined. Does anyone use it? Do they fuck.

[–] Lath@kbin.social 93 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use it and the browser kindly explained to me that the feature is mostly useless because sites don't give a shit about it.

[–] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I'll revise to what I intended (since I also use it). "Does anyone pay attention to it? Do they fuck."

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AFAIK the regulation already says that the "only necessary" should be available with one click. I think the issue is that it's difficult to go after all the small pages that are breaking the law. The big ones like YT of Google already have the 'disable all' button on top, I'm guessing because EU complained.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't say that it should be available with one click.

It says that accepting should be just as easy as declining. Which also includes things like not being allowed to have a "greyed out" button to reject while the accept button is big and sparkly.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 16 points 10 months ago

Yes, I think you're right. And everything should be disabled by default, right? So the pages that make you do 'configure -> disable all -> save' definitely don't follow the rules.

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I want an "only necessary cookies except one cookie to remember I clicked this option" button available with one click.