European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
  • @StereoCode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71•1 year ago

    What if this wasn’t a website issue but a browser one. Browsers invented cookies so browsers should be the ones to implement the banner feature. All Developers would then be forced to implement fallbacks to their cookies since the user could turn cookies off. If it was browser based fix then it would be a consistent UI and developers wouldn’t be able to do shady shit(at least with cookie consent is concerned)

    • TheMurphyEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      Damn, this is a really great solution. Then I could decide once if I wanted the cookies and the browser would decline/accept(lol) all from that point.

    • @dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Technically you can do this already with some firefox settings, or with extensions. Set your preference and forget.