Persistent Problems and Remedies
The default cookie setting for current browsers is “accept all cookies”. Thus, the “out-of-the-box” experience for users of NS 4.6 or IE 5.0 in mid-1999
is no different than their “out-of-the-box” experience
of cookies for NS 1.1 in 1995.
Remedy: What is needed is a default that preserves informed consent without unnecessarily burdening
the user with overwhelming queries. Likely,
different solutions are needed for sophisticated