Please just not another cookie (or whatever) consent prompt

[cimpok]

for me it's just as inhuman having to click on those annoying cookie consent prompts several dozen times a day while browsing.
whatever you come up with, please don't make any more of this bs.
What about a general "I don't care - just let me browse" reply for all these things configurable in the browser and valid for all sites? So I could perhaps get rid of those 34712 cookie consent prompts I click away each year.

[bew]

Note: you could use a browser extension for this, like I still don't care about cookies (here for chromium)

[samuei]

This could 100% be handled with a flag in your browser (all/necessary/none), or sites could easily default to none and ask when they are needed (or stuff the permissions in settings somewhere). These popups are annoying on purpose, to convince people that safety and privacy are annoying and not worth the hassle.

To me, this falls under "avoid hostile patterns that attempt to obtain consent through deception."

[cimpok]

My view is rather that the cookie thing is made to be annoying because it's required by law and the programmers exaggerate it, I guess, out of defiance to make it look more ridiculous:

• There is no law that requires a cookie prompt to obscure or grey out the entire screen, but I see it quite often.
• privacy has a hundred other components than cookies. The cookie law is there because it is unfortunately the same word that legislators have learned at the age of 3 (mommy, I want more cookies), so they were able to pronounce it and talk about it easily without understanding what it is about (something evil). Therefore there is no extra law about prompting for localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, Cache API, etc.

My proposal:

• the industry should standardize the API and the UI for prompting all these privacy permissions from the users. what's going on in this issue today is a mess.
• we should be able to give/revoke our permissions with permanent validity and should not be required to do it for each website we visit.

A legal approach: What an idiotic legal concept is this, where one with a single declaration can transfer the management of all his assets worth $17B to another person until revocation. But something as insignificant as allowing a cookie on www.rarelyboughtuselesstrinkets.com has to be done separately and repeatedly each time? It is not just simply annoying, but I also find it insulting that I am so not considered a sane, grown-up person by this silly regulation.

[mbarker84]

This could 100% be handled with a flag in your browser (all/necessary/none), or sites could easily default to none and ask when they are needed (or stuff the permissions in settings somewhere). These popups are annoying on purpose, to convince people that safety and privacy are annoying and not worth the hassle.

To me, this falls under "avoid hostile patterns that attempt to obtain consent through deception."

Very much agree here! The problem is the cookies and the companies that track users so invasively, not the GDPR laws that try to prevent this IMHO. Companies could choose not to violate users’ privacy, and obnoxious cookie banners that require multiple clicks to disable are a method of shifting the blame.