The cookie/privacy warnings that only a few sites used to have are now everywhere. I've even encountered sites that won't let me browse them at all unless I unblock cookies, because the cookie pop-up never goes away unless you do that.
The current business model of the Internet is only sustainable because great swathes of people are ignorant or apathetic about privacy and advertising, and how to use filters to deal with it all.
Vendors are not eating their own dog food.
@tw It needs to be turned into some kind of standard API for requesting permissions.
@thor If you choose "no," how are they supposed to make the warning go away and stay away other than by *setting a cookie* against the wish you just expressed?
@mattskala As I suggested further up in the thread, websites should have some way of requesting cookie permissions through a browser API. The browser should then ask the user, and remember the choice. It could work a bit like mobile apps and their permissions.
@thor I remember that browsers - I think Firefox was one with this feature - could be set up to prompt whether to accept cookies from a site on the first attempt to set them, and then remember the choice. That was with the existing API; it has always been de facto up to the browser whether to do what the server requests re: cookies. But this feature was removed from popular browsers years ago.
@mattskala This is where laws and computers struggle to interact.
@thor but those cookie notices are literally a response to the EU's attempt to legislate online privacy. So that's working well too.