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That won't work because most people will want to just permanently block tracking cookies. You could legislate it, but it would effectively kill targeted advertising.

The dialogues are only necessary because the website owners want to send you tracking cookies. If they choose not to, there is no need for any kind of banner, native or otherwise.




Targeted advertisement can be killed. I never bought something based on such ads and I don't need to see the same products I bought yesterday repeated over and over again on many unrelated sites.


> That won't work because most people will want to just permanently block tracking cookies. You could legislate it, but it would effectively kill targeted advertising

So? The only difference between what I suggest and what we have is user friendliness. The law is already here.


Yeah, but technical obtuseness is intentional. First, to force users to click "accept all" and second to make users hate the law.

It could be more user friendly, but that is not desired political/economical result.


So Chrome isn't going to implement it for obvious reasons, Firefox (which is funded by Google) isn't going to implement it either. Maybe Safari? I'm not sure if Apple cares. Brave? Brendan Eich will probably get assassinated before this change is rolled out.




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