| This initiative is ignorant and idiotic.
The authors don't even understand the purpose of cookie banners. 1. Making tracking impossible/illegal would NOT kill cookie banners, since you need them to record consent for other purposes as well, such as embedding a video from a third party like YouTube. 2. The GDPR explicitly prohibits site-owners from making cookie banners misleading. The law is already there, it is just not very well enforced. 3. "This results in up to 90% of people saying “YES” – even though only around 3% actually want to be tracked online"
This claim is grabbed out of thin air and can be dismissed as such. 4. "The solution: automatically communicate your privacy preference"
This is nonsense because it does not actually solve anything, because you need to record consent for a variety of purposes, not just analytics/tracking. 5. Killing tracking would kill the value of ads (since they are not targeted anymore), resulting in a reduced ability for small businesses to advertise and a hugely increased amount of ad spam everywhere.
Few targeted ads > Many untargeted ads Unless you want an internet where advertising is no longer possible, this solves nothing apart from stroking a few activists ego. |