[gf000]

> They're honor system, which is dumb when you could have browsers not send that data back without opt-in.

Given that there is no objective way to differentiate between functional and tracking cookies, your "technical" solution would also boil down to honoring marking certain cookies as such by the website owner, effectively being the same as what we have today.

(Though I do agree that the UX would be nicer this way)

[swiftcoder]

Well, I mean, we could go the route Safari has, and just blanket-disable 3rd party cookies by default. It's... quite effective (if a tad annoying for folks implementing single-sign-on)

[gf000]

I don't know, I don't think it helps all that much when you are up against Facebook's, and Google's wits on how to circumvent it.

If they can open a port and side-step the security system of Android wholesale, they can probably find a "solution" to the not even that hard of a problem of doing tracking server-side.

[swiftcoder]

There is a problem in convincing everyone on the internet to install a server-side tracking component.

Pretty much everyone was willing to give this away for free on the client side, in return for limited social integration, or (in Google's case) free analytics - server side is a significantly harder sell in many companies, and there is a much richer variety of backend languages/frameworks you have to integrate with.

[const_cast]

We don't need the functional/tracking cookie split - the law already thought of this.

If you're using functional cookies, you don't have to ask. If you're still asking, you're just wasting your time.

The reason every website asks is because:

1. They're stupid and don't even bother to preliminarily research the laws they comply with.

2. They actually are tracking you.

Ultimately if you're using something like Google Analytics, then yeah you probably do need a banner. Even if it's just a blog.

Great, so then don't do that.

[gf000]

We are not in disagreement - my point is that is is a fundamentally civil/legal problem, not a technical one. There is no technical distinction between a functional and a tracking cookie.