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IceWreck on April 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for trac...

> No, auto-reject what the sites let you reject

That would require sites to implement some kind of yet-to-exist browser API telling it which cookies are used for tracking and which are not.

And why would any website implement that ? The EU can't force websites to implement feature X.

aaomidi on April 24, 2022 [–]

I mean the EU can force websites to do whatever. That includes implementing a feature. As we saw with cookie consent law and GDPR. And as we're going to see with interop requirements for chat apps.

And the DNT header can be used exactly for that.

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