Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers? I mean, it's the same three or four possible fields over and over... can't we just set a default and pass it as a header on every request? |
Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers? I mean, it's the same three or four possible fields over and over... can't we just set a default and pass it as a header on every request? |
There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily
There's one big reason for that: The world's most popular browser and search engine both make their money by tracking you from the first second to the last
Most advertisers/tracking companies/websites using such products simply ignored it (due to their fears of revenue loss) and it withered on the vine.
Eliminating popups and observing DNT would defeat the primary purpose of cookie popups: to annoy the user and lead them to believe that GDPR et al. are not in their interest.