Comment by neilv

1 day ago

I'd expect a group that cared about privacy and security... not to need a cookie consent dialog like that.

My understanding is that the rules around those is similar to prop 65 rules. So unfocused as to dilute the original purpose.

  • The cookies used by the site appear to almost all be from Cloudflare, GitHub, YouTube: service providers that are not at all interested in enabling a cookie-free web site, and chose this route as malicious compliance. There's also one cookie to store a language preference that could be handled through HTTP headers instead.