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by TylerE 2023 days ago
That sounds like a recipe for the #%#%^#^ GDPR popups but 1000x worse.
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Sure, but that's an issue with those websites, not the law. The law doesn't mandate to have a fullscreen modal that says "We value your privacy" with a big button that allows all cookies and myriad tiny buttons to disallow them individually.

If websites choose to sacrifice usability to be able to fingerprint users, that's on them.

The problem with laws is they never get them right in the first place, and that goes double with anything technology, and then once they are law it is almost impossible to get them changed.