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...

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  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    40·
    11 months ago

    A major political entity admitting mistake and correcting based on feedback. How refreshing.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • them@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • ViscloReader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    11 months ago

    I trust they’ll do a good job focusing on privacy rather than outright going back to “no banner, cookies for everyone!”

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    Install privacy badge, turn on “automatically send do not track” and those things all just melt away when you go to a new site as it processes almost all sites automatically.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yup, that’s where it’s the most valuable to not have to drag fingers around and whatnot, easier if you needed to deal with popup on PC with mouse and keyboard and whatnot.