noyb publishes a proposal for an automatic browser signal to eliminate obsolete cookie banners. "ADPC" demonstrates a user-friendly European solution for privacy choices.
That signal is disabling cookies using an open source extension, right?
Because the only thing cookies are good for, to me, is retaining login information. Since you don’t log into the majority of sites, they’re utterly useless.
though you could make your app use local storage for this instead
To be fair, that has the exact same problems with tracking as cookies. You can still easily put tracking codes in there, and I’m sure some trackers do. So there isn’t really a benefit to using LocalStorage from a privacy perspective.
That signal is disabling cookies using an open source extension, right?
Because the only thing cookies are good for, to me, is retaining login information. Since you don’t log into the majority of sites, they’re utterly useless.
Afaik I can’t thing of any other usecase
I wish we just had a standard credential store in browsers. Then cookies would be almost completely useless even on sites that you’re logged into.
Saving settings on a page you don’t sign into (though you could make your app use local storage for this instead)
To be fair, that has the exact same problems with tracking as cookies. You can still easily put tracking codes in there, and I’m sure some trackers do. So there isn’t really a benefit to using LocalStorage from a privacy perspective.
I think Local Storage isn’t meant to be read server side, but that’s an easy line to cross if you’re determined.
Nothing an AJAX request can’t “fix”.
With cookies you don’t need Javascript at all.
Exactly