Jeff AtwoodAug 30, 2025
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" https://blog.codinghorror.com/breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar/
Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar

The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn’t require a password before you can connect to it. * Install Firefox and the Firesheep

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Show threadWilliam OldwinAug 31, 2025
@codinghorror That the EU 'forced' cookie banners is flat-out false. It was a *choice* for sites like yours to persist in the intensive collection of data about your users to feed in to the surveillance capitalism machine. As genuinely admirable as your philanthropy is, it was built on this.
Show threadWilliam OldwinAug 31, 2025

@codinghorror As for why this isn't a browser feature, it was and is! It is a *choice* by your industry to disregard this, by ignoring DNT and not implementing GPC in major browsers. Did your site honour DNT? Does it honour GPC in places where it is not legally obliged to?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/DNT
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

DNT header - HTTP | MDN

The HTTP DNT (Do Not Track) request header indicates the user's tracking preference. It lets users indicate whether they would prefer privacy rather than personalized content.

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Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 31, 2025
@willegible it's remarkably easy to support by simply not tracking people as well
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@jonny @willegible Exactly. But to do that a company would need a business model which is not based on selling my personal data.
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Show threadFreediverXAug 31, 2025

@older @jonny @willegible

A reminder that billionaires shouldn’t exist.