Solving the pop-up of GDPR cookie asking on every single site you visit these days

[hennoj]

I think the webservers/web developers should have an option to send an HTTP header with a code to specify for what purposes cookies are being sent/used and then the web browser checks what the user has set in the privacy settings against the code that the server sent and decides accordingly. The cookie pop-ups are annoying on every single site on the internet.

[Jon]

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[Romanko]

+1

Cookie notices, while completely useless, broke down the internet experience.

[luis123456789]

And this would be different from the abject and absolute failure that was Do Not Track headers... how, exactly?

[TechHorse]

I would like it if Firefox had an option to automatically select 'reject all' on those cookie consent banners. Or if the banner does not have this option, then it selects 'accept all'. Or it otherwise does something so that the user doesn't have to deal with them.

[BlueIronKnuckle]

It would also be nice if you could specify preferences for which cookies are shared with who.  I don't mind organization X's cookies, but I don't want one of those cookies to be for Google, for example.

[BlueIronKnuckle]

The difference between Do Not Track and this would be that Firefox would see the popup with the banner and click the button automatically, preventing the banner from ever appearing.  With my addition, it would also give you more fine-grained control than Do Not Track, allowing some cookies, but not others.  Do Not Track failed primarily because it required everything to never track, all the time, and websites had to implement it.

[hennoj]

Well its either of 2 options as far as i see: first via javascript some sort of window or system variable you can access and check what browser accepts or its via HTTP headers - i personally don't see more options to solving this. Do Not Track headers were probably at a time where GDPR was not a law and even now the sites themselves are only asking to comply with law. So that means even now less reputable sites can technically still track you as much they want and not notify you. Serious organisations and webdevelopers are complying. Its a tool for the sites that do comply with the laws to make the web experience better. I think the internet is more mature in that regard now.