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Worth noting that Google would probably do its very best to keep anything like this from coming to fruition with its tight grip on Chrome and web standards. And it’s not in the interest of individual companies to go through with this sense the odds that you just click “deny all cookies now and evermore” are pretty high.

Just a case of perverse incentives and conflicts of interest.

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It's also not in the interest of websites to show the cookie popups either, but they do it because they are legally required to do so.

I mean I think regulating it in either place is a bit silly, but if we are going to force users to accept cookies on each site, putting it in the browser is far easier to enforce (since you don't have to go after each site that doesn't do it), and a much better user experience.

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