| > The website is the one who decides which cookies to send in the first place. I can't fault websites for making use of functions the browser offers them. > Which cookies should the user "request to be stored" Have a simple toggle button for "Save state for this website" and discard everything when that button isn't pressed. Most website I visit I don't care about and have no need to keep any state. The few that I need to log into, I can just press that button. Knit that together with the "Save Passwords" function and it might be pretty much automatic most of the time. > Those popups exist because cookies were being abused Those popups exist because browsers failed to do their job. If the users wants warning for cookies, that's something the browsers can do just fine by itself, yet few do (e.g. Lynx). > Browser manufacturers did not build those tools for the sake of marketing companies. I'd disagree on that. Google makes their money with ads, so of course they'll optimize both Chrome and Search for maximum ad friendliness. Meanwhile Firefox is also run on Google ad money, so they can't step to far out of line either. There aren't many browsers that are build for the user first. The "you are the product" quote applies to browsers just as much as it does to Facebook. |