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by ratww 1646 days ago
For GDPR both localStorage, fingerprinting and other methods are all equal to cookies. Even IP tracking is the same as a cookie.

"Cookie Banner" is just tech-jargon for these banners, but an incorrect one.

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I know, I tried(and probably failed) to explain to OP why his simple idea to "just make the browsers disable third pary cookies" or other technical solutions are not going to work, you need GDPR like laws to focus on the actual problem and not some technical implementation because developers will find workarounds for technical only stuff.

Browsers could help by implementing a standard GDPR popup for this shitty websites to share , at least it will not be same dark pattern UX, broken implementation shit this sites use today.

Browsers could do a lot of good things if they would focus on the actual users needs and not on what some developer feels cool to work on or what soem giant company ants to implement next.

Gotcha. FYI, the post you replied to suggested "make browsers have a proper cookie banner", which seems like you agree with? The one that says "disable third party cookies" was two levels above your post.
>Gotcha. FYI, the post you replied to suggested "make browsers have a proper cookie banner", which seems like you agree with? The one that says "disable third party cookies" was two levels above your post.

Ah, sorry ,I messed up. I am trying to force myself to always quote the text I am replying, sometimes I do not do it and is causing issues, I will try to do better.