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in Germany there's a (somewhat) new law that makes it mandatory for all websites to ask you if it can store cookies on your harddrive. since then every time you visit a new page or on a new installation you have to click through three pop-ups, it's sooooo annoying to navigate the internet since then. so yeah this feature is more then welcome here ^^
I think it's the same for whole EU. I'm forced to click even though I'm not from Germany.
I'm not in the EU and those banners are still everywhere.
And the thing is afaik in the EU websites cant save anything nonessential unless you actively opt-in. In other countries its opt-out. So blocking cookie banners while not strictly cleaning or blocking may be harmful for privacy
okay. my bad it's apparently EU wide. so then it doesn't make sense for Firefox to only do that in Germany.
Gdpr thing
Nope it’s the e privacy directive, a common mistake is to blame the GDPR for that though.
I think this is because of a recent German court ruling making DNT legally binding in Germany.
good call
As I understand it, the blocker has website-specific rules to automatically click the right buttons. For the first release, they've probably primarily tested those with German websites. I assume that if it works well there and they've ironed out most bugs, we can see it roll out more widely.
I read in another article that it is just supposed to be a first test of the feature before the global rollout.
I think (and hope) tha the logical conclusion of the DNT lawsuit v LinkedIn will be that DNT will be deemed necessary and sufficient, and that this setting will replace all the cookie banners. But even if that comes to pass it will be years before all the banners will be gone.
okay that makes sense.
What is that all about? Geo fencing privacy enhancements?
Are they trying to keep Google happy or something.
Most likely rolling it out to a "small" segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.