i just wish i could tell the browser to auto accept all
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
And btw, you can already disable all cookies for a particular website, or all websites in both FF and Chromium. Just click the lock https icon > more info and choose the cookie setting.
That would require sites to implement some kind of yet-to-exist browser API telling it which cookies are used for tracking and which are not.
And why would any website implement that ? The EU can't force websites to implement feature X.
And the DNT header can be used exactly for that.
Making the browser not support cookies at all exists, is trivial, and has nothing to do with not opting into consent walls. Virtually nobody uses such extensions because
> You wouldn't be able to log in to any website
Rather, it's about interacting with these consent walls in an automatic manner to block the tracking cookies that aren't necessary for the website to function. You know, the part that needs consent.
But so long as the general public, heck, even techies continue to believe that antiquated lawmakers had no idea what the heck they were talking about when they made all cookies require opt-in (spoiler: that's not what it says), I guess we'll continue to accept consent walls because there is no critical mass to oppose sites that employ them.