Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers?

5 pointsposted a year ago
by bigattichouse

Item id: 41511940

6 Comments

kevinsimper

a year ago

My solution would be to simply ignore all cookies from any new website and only allow once a button has been pressed by the user in the address bar.

There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily

solardev

a year ago

> There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily

There's one big reason for that: The world's most popular browser and search engine both make their money by tracking you from the first second to the last

pwg

a year ago

That was already tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Most advertisers/tracking companies/websites using such products simply ignored it (due to their fears of revenue loss) and it withered on the vine.

greyface-

a year ago

This already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Eliminating popups and observing DNT would defeat the primary purpose of cookie popups: to annoy the user and lead them to believe that GDPR et al. are not in their interest.

wruza

a year ago

It’s the expected result cause GDPR creators are living under an effing rock. Working in peoples interest and being completely clueless are orthogonal things.

1vuio0pswjnm7

a year ago

Would have been useful to include that reuirement in the statute, i.e., a non-interactive method for indicating denial of consent,