should go towards building a browser that handles cookie permissions on the browser side.
Don't they all do that? Per-site cookie management in the browser has been around since IE6 if not earlier:
Don't they all do that? Per-site cookie management in the browser has been around since IE6 if not earlier:
Instead of it being something the user has to manually find in settings and configure, the browser can show an unobtrusive prompt for the user to agree whenever a site tries to store a cookie for the first time.
There could also be changes to the cookie standard that allow specifying if a cookie is “essential”, so browsers can permit them by default, or “non-essential”, so the browser should prompt the user.