Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track ? Which failed in part because Microsoft turned it on by default which even further disincentivised publishers from respecting it.
They would never do this willingly, because they don't want you to automatically opt out of tracking.
The annoyance of the cookie banners is the entire draw for companies. Its not a downside. They're user-hostile. You are their enemy. Their goal is to wear you down and trick you into opting-in, so they can both track with impunity and follow the law.
Cookies are the easiest way to keep track of a user, but if browsers regularly stop sending cookies then website operators will just find another method to fingerprint users and then we're back to square one with the law still requiring publishers to receive opt-in approval, but with no requirements on how.
It probably is, currently. But even if cookies are not used, the identifier for this type of functionality would still need to be stored somewhere and passed to the server in some way to avoid showing another CAPTCHA to the user.
Whatever mechanism they choose to uniquely identify you, they will insist it's necessary for another purpose and they totally are not piggybacking on it for tracking (e.g. for the CAPTCHA example, they would insist it's absolutely necessary to protect themselves from DDoS).
As another example, they can always respond with HTML where all links themselves are an opaque hash that internally contain "route + your id" when decrypted. Then emphasizing that all links are always different even for same routes to "show they are randomly generated", and saying that they do this because... idk, detecting scraping or something random but plausible-sounding. Or whatever sneaky variation of the `?PHPSESSID=` query param from old times.
(Yeah I know the last example doesn't a lot make sense, I didn't think too hard about it, the point is that they will probably find a way somehow.)
One of the ways pair programming can be effective is one of the pair keeping more of the big picture in mind. Either thinking about alternative approaches or at least spotting the escalation of commitment to current approach and calling a pause to reflect.
This does a much better job than anything I've seen before. Nice work. It still doesn't generate routes I'd use as they're too circuitous due to the poor cycle infrastructure in the UK. However, it does a good job of highlighting good options and options I didn't even know about.
I wouldn't mind switching between windows if I could use the GNOME Activities overview for that. But maybe that is not possible because there is no way to communicate the change in stream size if the windows have different sizes?
The irony of setting up a '“Bureaucracy Mailbox” for any examples any of you see where we might have bureaucracy' while announcing an edict enforced by centralised control to replace autonomous decision making about where & how to work.
This is not the first "we're starting a committee to figure out what to do about there being too many committees" I've seen in my ~7 years here. Makes me laugh every time.
A long time ago I joined Deloitte to set up a local software dev. practice.
A few days in I was invited to join a "bureaucracy reduction taskforce". Someone handed me a literally 12 inch thick stack of paper I was meant to read up on before the first meeting. I gave my regrets and withdrew from the taskforce (there were no repercussions - apparently a few others had noped out as well).
I choose to believe that was a strategy. Invite everybody so they feel included, weed out almost everybody so it's a small group and can maybe get something done
...which only underscores how pointless this is: if it works in Chrome on MacOS and Windows (https://support.apple.com/en-us/120585), it will also work on Linux, so why exclude Linux?!
Depends. I disagree with HDCP in theory on ideological grounds. In practice, my main movie device is below 720p (projector), so it will take another decade before it affects me in any way.
