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EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners! (noyb.eu)

submitted 2 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just mandate an opt-in default. If the "3–10% of people [that] want this", wish to get out of their way and explicitly enable spyware, I believe this is a much more reasonable overall baseline (with respect to the other 90–97%). And considering most web-users rarely clear cookies, the preferences are effectively persistent already: which really appears to be the lobby's primary interest. If people were conditioned by dark patterns to accept, while holding onto cookies, excessive data collection happens without user-awareness and potential for reevaluation.

I'm no fan of browser signaling, because to me it seems like yet another unique identifier: to potentially, and ironically be (ab)used to improve browser-fingerprinting.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That'd be ideal, and would affect adtech's ability to track without consent. So that's a good goal.

Requiring adtech to honor an automated signal would still be progress, hopefully reducing enshittification and making it easier to refuse tracking.

It would be an extra bit or 2 that could be included in fingerprint. IMHO it's worth it if there's regulation that makes it easier to go after companies that ignore those signals