- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined
The banners should stay. If a site doesn’t use cookies, you don’t get a banner. The sites choose for themselves if they want to use cookies and put up an obnoxious banner, or not use cookies.
I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn’t have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.
What are you on about? The banners and cookie abuse should go