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by gatgeagent 1605 days ago
Which is the same thing with cookies, you just set some string in a HTTP header, if the browser actually honors that is up to user (in the way what browser he installs and how the user configures it).
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Exactly. Your browser preferences are your cookie settings.

The whole business of littering the web with cookie consent forms is as far from a sensible technical solution to the problem as can be imagined. The people who invented the web and who designed browsers have had at least the aspiration to build a system that’s going to work as a whole. Courts and lawmakers, in the other hand, have no such vision.