Web-Browsers and Web-Communities Should Do More for Consent

This is an important topic and I think a browser could do more to not only give people options, but to guide them as well - and do the guiding on device instead of sending sensitive info to the cloud to determine if a warning or suggestion is on order.

I really wish google had never taken the search strings out of the referral info - way back in the day, stats were really useful to help understand what users were searching for and helped us do more to give them what they were looking for -

I've always felt it should be up to the individual user to choose to share search referral info or not- and the browser could have a checkbox for such - and I would be fine / maybe happy with a browser that paused a sessions and said 'your search includes 'sensitive info, should I strip the referring url and block the search term from appearing in stats for the destination site? -

As a web site operator I'd have a note about wanting that data to help people and a note about how we could really use the search term and be happy to fuzz the ip addy like the EFF does with it's stats..

But.. google has taken those options from all of us in the name of privacy or whatever.

I have seen some anti-virus suites pop up with things like 'you are going to a bank site, turn on whatever-feature for this site?

There are many things browsers could help with - for those who want to say UX! - not too many options! - I get that - but there should be options for people who want them, and the fact that incognito mode tracks for google yet gives the illusion of non-tracking kind of takes the big G folks out of the discussion of that imho -

I've also seen browser extensions that are privacy slaying in ways people likely will never realize - and a good browser could warn about that kind of thing - and for people that use someone else's device - it might be nice to know that 3 browser extensions are sucking in your shopping data when visiting bachelorette raunchy gifts dot com - or whatever - might be nice if the browser suggested turning on VPN for some things that could affect 'you might like this cock lollipop' for the next couple of months from popping up everywhere.

A few random thoughts on the browsers and consent. I am pro options, education, and consent for most things - and browsers could do a better job enlightening people and do things without the cloud - it's a huge missed opportunity for privacy and security imho.

"Web-browsers" seems odd — normal usage would just be "web browser", no?

One great thing about the Gemini protocol is that there is no such thing as a cookie.