"It would have made far more sense for browsers to be made to pop up an alert when a site uses cookies"
I think every single browser since NCSA's mosaic has that option build in.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:19,
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They may do, but it isn't on by default.
(Presumably because no one wants it to be an in-your-face feature, so getting cookie information is quite a few clicks away.)
If the law is about making such information more visible, then that would seem a more sensible place to insist on it, anyway.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:26,
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