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The EU's cookie banner regime has forced every website in the world to show consent popups, but a proposed fix would let browsers signal consent once, eliminating the banners entirely. The tracking industry is lobbying hard against it. Leo directs listeners to killthecookiebanner.eu to sign the petition.
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Leo wraps with a strong plug for killthecookiebanner.eu, arguing that browser-level opt-outs are technically trivial but the tracking industry is lobbying hard to prevent it. He closes with warm farewells to each guest: Devindra plugs The Filmcast and the new Avatar: Aang movie on Paramount Plus; Allyn reveals he was once calling into TWiT live from a Navy base in Little Creek, Virginia; Larry signs off early because his ruptured Achilles — aggravated by walking through New York, Washington, Toronto, and Montreal on what he thought was a sprain — requires surgery on Friday. Leo shares that his own mother passed away peacefully at 93 two weeks prior, and the episode ends on a reflective note about mortality, friendship, and the strange privilege of covering technology for fifty years.
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