If I lay my hands on those fucking EU beurocrats that decided we need cookie notices I'll stick them in a cage above lava/lazer-sharks with a phone that doesn't let them call for help until they accept/reject the cookie policy for every website in the world.

Come on, everyone knows cookies are the biggest threat to privacy and the only thing that can be done is to tell the users about it and then not let them do anything about it! Obviously.

I don't understand why browsers don't have it incorporated in to the software somewhere/somehow like they do with SSL warnings. Having to create it for every website seems ridiculous.

Also the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 fueled that tire fire regardless of who started it.

It needs to change.

The problem isn't the regulation, it's the websites. You don't need consent for cookies that are technically necessary, such as for a shopping trolley in a shop, you only need to explain that in your privacy section. The actual fuckery is that websites set cookies for nothing.

@ojt-rant Well, they have the Do not track header and it is ignored by every site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@Oktokolo I'm thinking more of a way to show people what the cookies are. Maybe a web developer can provide the list in a root file that loads through to something in the browser software menu area rather than having to create a popup widget and a page. A universal system.

@ojt-rant Better approach: Don't show the cookies, but just never accept 3rd-party cookies and throw all cookies away at closing the browser or one hour after closing the last tab of the site.

The cookie tracking problem is trivial to solve. Browser fingerprinting is the actual problem. And that is way harder to solve.

@ojt-rant Like P3P? https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I made a cookie consent dialog + implementation for Google Tag Manager. Oh boy when I accepted the cookies while testing. o.o