[qwertox]

I wish politicians would engage in fixing the issue of dark patterns with these cookie banners, enforce a fast-reacting popup containing "accept", "only essentials", "customize".

And these popups should also require to mention if the article which you're hoping to read requires a subscription or not, because they're basically tricking you into accepting site-wide cookies for articles which you then can't read.

Ideally browsers would have an API where I can use the settings of the browser to pre-configure my answers, and that websites are required to ask the API instead of presenting me a home-built dialog. Browsers do this for cameras, microphones and all kind of privacy sensitive things, so why not for cookies?

[dangocrat]

Yes surely we can legislate our way out of this one. Wait how did we get here?

[qwertox]

It was an important step.