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VM (Vicky) Brasseur Sep 22, 2025

Let's be clear here: The law is NOT to blame for cookie banners.

The blame lies with companies that would rather inconvenience you with a banner than respect your privacy by not collecting (and selling) your data..

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/?

Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

POLITICO

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@vmbrasseur
Or cookie whitelisting and browser tab containers could make the entire question moot.

In firefox, i use containers to control cookie scope, and all cookies i haven't white listed are nuked when the tab or browser closes.

The sites i trust remember me. Everything else forgets me. Can this not be baked into default browser behavior? (Takes 2 plugins in firefox, impossible in chrome.)

It would make this entire topic irrelevant.