• TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 days ago

    removing yet another security feature theatre.

    DNT was always just an honor system, and can be used as another data point for fingerprinting.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, I’m not too mad about this. It’s a good idea, but without legal weight behind it, it ultimately failed. Ideally GDPR and similar regulations would provide something similar, so I can set my preference once and every site would be required to respect it. That would be much better that the current situation, which is that I am forced to navigate every asshole site’s custom cookie notice. Each one’s a little different, and some of them break certain browser configurations. It’s a UX nightmare. This is probably by design — annoy users into submission. Because nobody in their right mind would ever click “allow” if it were not the easier choice.