[Poppys]

If companies had respected the Do Not Track and browser vendors had made it easier to adopt we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we are in now.

[resonious]

If we really cared about tracking and privacy, browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies). It's full-on insane to use the law to force every website developer to add their own cookie banner when we could just change the browser and be done with it.

[input_sh]

> browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies)

Firefox has that built into its tracking protection. I don't know what's it set to by default, but it took me three clicks to reach the setting.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-fir...

[Yujf]

Or, the website could just not track you and thus not require a cookie banner?

[resonious]

They could, but ultimately they want to track us.

People also want to perform CSRF attacks. So what do we do? Make a law against CSRF? Or change the browsers to make it much harder?

[still_grokking]

You've just said:

> It's full-on insane to use the law to force every website developer to add their own cookie banner […]

Which is obvious FUD. And this comment now makes it clear that you actually knew that you're spreading FUD.

[lkbm]

> browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies).

Hasn't that been a standard browser setting since the 1990s? I remember Netscape had it.