Ever since GDPR, the web has been flooded with popup banners asking for permission to use cookies. Privacy and free choice are important, but efficiency is too, and its seriously annoying to have to click on dozens of banners while visiting websites throughout the day just so the Internet can keep functioning like it did for the past couple decades.<p>It would be cool if we could develop a protocol where users could flip a setting on their browser that tells every website they visit that the user has consciously, legally opted-in to all cookies. Heck, it would be cool to also have an option that says I accept all your Privacy Policies and Terms of Agreement, so don't show me any banners related to those too.<p>Thoughts? Is this feasible?
I believe what you are asking for already exists in most browsers, but would need to be implemented on sites.<p>Today you can set the client header DNT: 1. Now you just need to get sites to agree that DNT: 0 means "Don't show me the cookie banner."
The problem is that people would have to set up this setting on all their browsers, which I doubt most would, which means no adoption by websites.<p>I would love the same system, but one that did the opposite: no cookies on sites I haven't logged into (or all cookies are valid for only 5 seconds and unique per domain). I tested a newspaper, they had listed more than _60_ cookies as required, while we know that the required number of cookies to show a news website is 0 (or at most 1 if they must prompt me to accept the others).
96.36% of browsers support the Do Not Track API: <a href="https://caniuse.com/#feat=do-not-track" rel="nofollow">https://caniuse.com/#feat=do-not-track</a>