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Cookie banners are a great reason for expirations dates on new policies. If it works: Great, renew it! If it does not work, is not required anymore or was just plain stupid: Never talk about it again and it will run out. But who will actively admit that regulation failed and work to undo it?

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Cookie banners is not a policy, it is used to work around a policy, and often implemented incorrectly. GPDR says you need to be given a specific informed decision, but often cookie banners show a big green approve button, and a less positive deny button (if that is even the case). When the law is being enforced better (Which is slowly happening) those cookie banners should get 2 the same looking buttons, and that would result in more denies. Hopefully, companies would realize that they need to solve their marketing differently.

More like big green approve button vs.

"Configure my preferences" -> Untick all the things -> Make sure you click the almost invisible Save button and not accidentally click the big green "Allow All" button.

Horrible. If we can force websites to do this, we should be able to force websites to read my request header NoDamnTrackingCookiesFfs

Probably worth noting that this practice is illegal in the EU. Saying no should be just as easy as saying yes.

However they are very bad at enforcing it, sadly.

And 150 of the 400 "partners" will also have a pre-ticked "legitimate interest" checkbox that you have to untick separately. To me that's an automatic maximum penalty fine, but sadly there is no enforcement.

Most of laws, at leas where I live, are amended. 'Never talk about it again' seems bit naive to me. If good faith have not helped with trackers then ban them outright.

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