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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined

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[–] them 15 points 11 months ago

I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn't have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.