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> Instead EU should make mandatory that browser vendors create standard "blocker button" clearly visible in the toolbar from which user can globally disable trackers, and perhaps preview them.

So basically, uBlock Origin?




For us, the geeks and tech people, why not? But for ordinary people it could be simpler and easier to understand which had a standard icon etc. Idea would be that it replaces all dialogs in top of normal content.

Maybe it could have some other standardization too, e.g. that if you have third-party trackers you must explicitely list them using <meta /> tags and browsers could make the list of trackers for the "blocker button" like that.

The point being that having every website to implement their own dialogs (that just obscure the content) it has shown to become a terrible mess. None is bothered to read the dialogs, they just hit what ever buttons to get to the content.




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