Show GDPR popup

[bertyhell]

Proposal for a similar API as the location API to show a popup to be compliant with the GDPR legislation in europe.

Problem

Currently every website implements their own popup to be GDPR compliant. This results in a poor user experience where the user has to dismiss multiple popups to be able to read the actual content of the webpage.

Examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=gdpr+popup&tbm=isch

Example library that generates these popups for you. (useful to see what options we could include in this API) https://cookie-script.com/

Solution

To improve this we could create an API in the browser that allows website developers to request a popup to be shown to the user. Similar to the location API popup.

In pseudo code this API would look something like this:

navigator.privacy.getCookieConcent({cookie: true, tracking: true}, allowHandler, denyHandler);

This would then show a dialog to the user:

This would might make it possible to circumvent the GDPR popups for users that check the "use these settings for all sites" (not sure if this is legal though lawyer assistance needed )

This would also allow the browser to give more info about the website privacy settings:

Discussion points:

• Is this repo the correct location to propose this API?
• Do you think this is a viable API?
• Would browsers implement this even though it is only for the European market?
• Is the "use for all sites" setting enough consent from the user to not show this dialog on other websites?
• Should we provide options for privacy tracking, so the user can consent to some tracking. eg: tracking for analytics, but not for marketing.
• Should this work with callbacks or promises or both?
• Should we include a "read more" link in the API, so users can read more about why privacy tracking consent is required for that particular website?

[annevk]

This might be a good topic for https://discourse.wicg.io/.

[bertyhell]

This might be a good topic for https://discourse.wicg.io/.

I recreated the post: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-show-gdpr-popup/3433