Comment by morsch

1 day ago

But I don't want to delete cookies? I want websites to use cookies that are technically necessary e.g. for keeping me logged in. I just don't want them to use it to track my behavior especially inter-website.

The EU law already allowed technically necessary cookies without any banner.

Every time you get a cookie banner with options, the website wants to know more about you than the law permits by default.

  • ... or cargo culted a site that did. I think this is far more common. It's almost like you're not a serious web site if you don't have a cookie popup of some kind.

Interwebsite is solved by partitioning and login cookies are solved by explicit whitelisting.

  • You think the average user is going to explicitly whitelist? The law requires sites to whitelist their own cookies under penalty of law, instead.

    • > You think the average user is going to explicitly whitelist

      When prompted by the browser on first login/signup, yes, the same way the password manager works. With stored passwords, keeping the login cookie doesn't even add much value.

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