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by oftenwrong 1837 days ago
Instead of permitting sites to request consent of the user directly, they should be required to request consent via an official EU site. It could work like an authorisation redirect flow. This would standardise the consent UI, and prevent sites from implementing dark patterns.
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Then the EU tracks everything everyone does. Nice.
The site could provide an opaque ID for user. Also, anti-tracking on the part of the EU could be enforced by law.
Ignoring the many obvious privacy issues with this proposal, have you considered how this would result in a legally mandated single point of failure for (nearly..) all web sites?
Better yet, a standard browser interface.
This is an awful idea.