I wish browsers had built-in mechanism for showing the cookie banners. After all, cookies are just an HTTP header sent from server and it's up to the user-agent to handle it.
There could be a standard header such as cookie-privacy-policy which would point to url containing the policy in standadrd format (html?) and the browser could show it in standard way (by user's settings). Personally I would be happy with just a little "privacy policy" icon in url bar, similar to https lock icon and reader view icon (in Safari).
I accept but don't save any cookies except certain whitelisted ones.
So I get a lot of cookie policy banners and I always click the full 'accept all' option because at best it'll just eat into their database storage and I'll arrive with no stored cookies the next time I visit the site.
The browser allows me to accept all cookies or non-third-party cookies automatically but I still get these stupid cookie policy banners that cover half the screen at the worst.
I'd really like a standardized way to accept all cookie policies with no questions asked.
(And, for the matter, something that automatically says 'no' each and every time a site decides that the best first thing to do is to ask me to give some feedback of the site before I've even used the said site.)
> I accept but don't save any cookies except certain whitelisted ones.
That's basically what happens in private mode (incognito), I guess. Would be nice if browsers used private mode by default, and you could "whitelist" certain sites you trust / want to remember your login.
Sure, there exists an extension for pretty much everything, but it's not an ideal situation that you need to install an extension for stuff like this.
Also, having too many extensions slows down the browser (because they need to parse/manipulate DOM) and extensions themselves are also a security/privacy risk and finding the good ones for every browser can be tedious.
Besides, my mom has no idea what's "a browser extension".
Most people just need one extension: uBlock Origin (or built-in Opera/Brave adblock) with a filter list from prebake.eu. No more ads and cookie banners. Easy as that.
I'm using this setup, and I still get cookie/ToS banners all the time, especially using Google (I think I'm accepting their new terms of service 4/5 times each day).
Quite a lot of "cookie banners" are really banners to allow third parties to track you.
Under GDPR, this requires a clear, unambiguous consent, freely given.
How can you understand what you consent to if you blanket-accept everything? And thus the consent is invalid. And they need a new banner.
Some News sites literally ask for consent to over a thousand purposes in dozens of categories. Ist's really wild top assume that that's consent, informered or otherwise.
Oh but that behaviour is actually pretty clearly not compliant with the EU cookie law. It just hasn't been enforced (which isn't great).
They're not allowed to make it harder to withdraw consent than to give it.
I've also found, on the few times I humoured their "consent" system, found that each of these "tracking providers" (?) needed to make a request to a different domain to withdraw consent, and some of them simply wouldn't load.
To be clear, P3P didn't work because Mozilla and Google and poured gasoline on it, and then Facebook lit a match. Had competing browsers not been desperate to brand it as some sort of weird proprietary Micro$oft thing, we might have a better version of it today (as happened to most features of that era).
> There is also `Do Not Track` header but it is not respected by most of websites.
The naivety of this approach almost makes me laugh. I mean, it's good intention, but really we cannot just trust the "bad" party. Active client-side measures are needed (e.g. as Safari does).
There could be a standard header such as cookie-privacy-policy which would point to url containing the policy in standadrd format (html?) and the browser could show it in standard way (by user's settings). Personally I would be happy with just a little "privacy policy" icon in url bar, similar to https lock icon and reader view icon (in Safari).