Yes. It's not the regulation but the misguided implementation that's to blame.
Sites and cookie banner plugins could just accept DNT signals from browsers and no productivity would be lost.
Sites and cookie banner plugins could just accept DNT signals from browsers and no productivity would be lost.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...
I tried looking at the various browser standards positions, and as far as I can see, nobody has even asked Blink or WebKit if they are interested in supporting it. Is there any movement on this at all? The official website says that it’s part of “several major browsers”, but this seems dishonest when the biggest browser that supports it is Firefox with ~2.5% market share and no actual major browser seems to be aware of its existence.
Normally when a spec. like this is written that needs adoption from web browsers, an explainer is written and then the major rendering engines are asked for their feedback. For instance, here’s an explainer:
https://github.com/krgovind/first-party-sets
Here’s where WebKit was asked for their position on it:
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/93
Here’s where Mozilla was asked for their position on it:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/350
Here’s the process Blink goes through to get a new feature like this going:
https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/
I tried to find where this was done for GPC and couldn’t find anything. Did they just write a spec. and not bother doing any of the work involved in getting it adopted? Or is there progress being made that I didn’t see? Hence my question: Is there any movement on this at all? Or is the process of getting it adopted by Blink and WebKit at absolute zero?
For existing privacy options — location, microphone, camera — Safari on iOS has the options of "ask"/"deny"/"allow".
I wouldn't be surprised by legislation for a Do Not Track option in DMA designed Gatekeepers' browsers, defaulting to "ask", where all three options must be handled accordingly by websites.
"Ask" would also have to be the default behaviour when no preference is transmitted.
In much the same way no banner is required if no cookie is being set.
Granted, you can't legally use it like that where EU laws apply, per the GDPR. Hence the complaints about the GDPR you see in other comments.
DNT: 0 = Yes, track me.
DNT: 1 = No, do not track me.
> I'm not even sure with it set to 0 that you can assume that intent.
That's the problem. Someone not paying attention might inadvertently set DNT: 0, which is why the law is written the way it is. But at the same time we have techies who knowingly and carefully set such values and want the service to acknowledge it, contrary to the law. Hence the contention.