Yeah, I know what you meant. And every site will list all cookies as necessary. So then you need to pass a law that says sites need to be honest about which are necessary and which aren’t…because browsers can’t actually determine this.
Right, the crucial part is legislation. The context is that the original comment said "EU could have requested browser vendors to implement a mechanism to accept or reject cookies".
What we're missing today is:
- An automated way of having browsers know what cookies are used for (What I'm suggesting is quite easy), and
- Legislation to prevent companies fron lying (What the general context is about)
That would be the general fix for the entire situation.
No, we’re only missing this browser stuff you’re talking about. But again if you’re going to legislate this and then trust companies to follow, it’s just easier to have them implement.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...
Or maybe a "Role=Required", "Role=Advertising" sort of thing.
I don't see any sort of equivalent of that now.