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If left to owners/managers/developers to implement the opt-in we risk having a variety of ways for doing the same thing. Some good, some not so good and some just bad.

A less painful solution would be to try and solve this at the browser level where the experience for end users would at least be consistant. Like a blend of DNT & private browsing mode that had extremely restrictive criteria for cookie usage - if any.

Something like [Ghostery][0] would be a nice starting point.

Of course the better solution would be to erase Article 5(3) and start again. Good intentions, bad directive.

[0]: http://www.ghostery.com/




Nice one, that's the kind of `thing` I was referring to.




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