alt Hacker NewsIt is impractical for me as a user. I have to click on a notice on every website on the internet before interacting with it - often which are very obtuse and don’t have a “reject all” button but a “manage my choices” button which takes to an even more convoluted menu.
Instead of exactly as you say: a global browser option.
As someone who has had to implement this crap repeatedly - I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of global time that has been wasted implementing this by everyone, fixing mistakes related to it and more importantly by users having to interact with it.
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tcfhgj • last Saturday at 12:47 PM
Just don't process any personal data by default when not I inherently required -> no banner required.
1718627440 • last Saturday at 1:32 PM
I don't have to, because there are add-ons to reject everything.
Yeah, but the only reason for this time wasteage is because website operators refuse to accept what would become the fallback default of "minimal", for which they would not need to seek explicit consent. It's a kind of arbitrage, like those scammy website that send you into redirect loops with enticing headlines.
The law is written to encourage such defaults if anything, it just wasn't profitable enough I guess.