EU capitals have opposed the Commission’s proposal to scrap the much-maligned mechanism
The privacy watchdog in charge of Germany’s federal bodies is pleading for cookie banners to be replaced with a new, central solution across Europe.
Cookie banners have become a key part of browsing the internet, with websites asking users for their consent to collect data on them. Many do so in roundabout and not easily deniable ways, meaning users end up accepting cookies even if they don’t actually want their data to be collected.
Three-quarters of survey participants who currently click on “accept all” would more often opt to deny all cookies if it were as easy to do, according to new survey numbers published by Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) on Thursday.
To go around this long-standing problem, BfDI Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider instead pitches a new solution that would allow internet users to set their preferences once in one place and then have all websites adapt accordingly, so-called cookie managers.
