[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Why don't web browsers answer cookie questions?
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       Ask HN: Why don't web browsers answer cookie questions?
        
       Why can't my web browser announce that I only accept technically
       necessary cookies? (So I don't have to click customize and find
       that option)
        
       Author : sagebird
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-01-17 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
       | m-p-3 wrote:
       | Firefox can technically do some of that if you set
       | "cookiebanners.service.mode" = 2 in about:config
       | 
       | https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/24/configure-firefox-to-rejec...
        
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       | speedgoose wrote:
       | With GDPR, the question isn't so much about cookies but more
       | about getting your informed consent to track you.
       | 
       | It's not something a browser can do automatically because then
       | websites owners will not listen.
       | 
       | Some time ago, Microsoft did set on the do not track setting by
       | default on one version of internet explorer and it basically
       | killed the do not track project.
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
       | 
       | I can say that I disable all the cookies that I can disable not
       | because I care about privacy but because as somebody
       | neurodivergent, modal dialogs cause me a lot of distress and I
       | want to punish web sites for distracting me.
        
       | FinnKuhn wrote:
       | Most browsers can do this[1] (it is called "Do Not Track), but
       | many websites will not use this information, because they want
       | you to consent to them tracking you so they will just ask you in
       | a pop up (Cookie Banner). While on the one hand this seems like
       | companies trying to extract the most amount of money out of your
       | website visit on the other hand this setting isn't on a website
       | basis and you might want one website to track what you do while
       | you don't want another to do so, which isn't possible with this
       | setting so far. Furthermore a website might want to give you the
       | option to choose between only necessary cookies, cookies that
       | improve your user experience and tracking cookies arguing that
       | the do not track request doesn't make it clear weather you only
       | want the necessary cookies or also cookies improving your user
       | experience that aren't strictly necessary but don't track you.
       | 
       | [1] how to enable this feature in chrome:
       | https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761?hl=en&co=GE...
        
         | 0xC0ncord wrote:
         | Worse, the DNT header is often used as just another metric to
         | fingerprint users.
        
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