<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sdoering</author><text>It can&amp;#x27;t be. At least not if you want to accept cookies. Declining is easy. You can just decline everything (technically) not necessary.&lt;p&gt;The problem is, that consent must be given freely and fully informed. And this is the catch. Automatic acceptance isn&amp;#x27;t fully informed and with that the consent isn&amp;#x27;t valid.&lt;p&gt;So it would put the companies in danger and therefore no company could honor this standard.&lt;p&gt;Sadly - as it would make live more easy. But it would be enough if companies would just not use dark patterns. If there is a banner the &amp;quot;Accept all&amp;quot; and the &amp;quot;Deny all&amp;quot; must be both be the same level of &amp;quot;easy-ness&amp;quot; and the same amounts of clicks (and wait time). Only if you want to you would need to dive into the detailed categories.&lt;p&gt;And even there: Most sites abuse &amp;quot;legitimate interest&amp;quot;. Everything non essential should by default be inactive. But sadly it isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I am a data analyst&amp;#x2F;Web analyst. I do this stuff for a living for clients. Still I value these things highly. And would love for it to be implemented correctly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eternityforest</author><text>I wish there was a standard browser API for this.  If the law is going to force this to be a thing, and it&amp;#x27;s not going away, web standards should respond.&lt;p&gt;It could even just be a flag in the cookie itself declaring that something isn&amp;#x27;t strictly necessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms</title><url>https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endless1234</author><text>Like this? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Do_Not_Track&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Do_Not_Track&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was very ineffective.&lt;p&gt;Something similar but actually enforced (easier said than done) and utilized would be very nice indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eternityforest</author><text>I wish there was a standard browser API for this.  If the law is going to force this to be a thing, and it&amp;#x27;s not going away, web standards should respond.&lt;p&gt;It could even just be a flag in the cookie itself declaring that something isn&amp;#x27;t strictly necessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms</title><url>https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic</url></story>