[leoedin]

The whole "website asks" thing seems like a stupid political answer to a technical problem. If the browser denied cookies by default (like it does with location, or webcam access etc) then the problem would be solved.

I suspect the reason Chrome doesn't do that already is that user tracking is essentially Googles business.

[Ellipsis753]

You _can_ deny cookies. It's just that this breaks almost every website. This was true before Chrome existed.

[leoedin]

If Chrome made denied cookies by default and required an explicit opt-in caused by a user action (basically deter un-prompted cookie prompts like we managed to deter popups) then that would change very quickly. I wonder why they don't?

[annoyingnoob]

I have my browser setup to delete cookies each time I close it. And I run ad, tracker, and script blockers on top of that.

[belinder]

So do you just deal with logging in every time on every website when you open your browser again?

[annoyingnoob]

A password manager really helps here, yes.

The downside is that I always see the cookie banners, which I mostly try to ignore but some of them block most of the page.