The urge to play policeman is strong in the privacy community, and Github is now owned by Microsoft (and capitalism, and therefore wrong) – so I’m going to start a timer for how long it is until we see coverage of some privacy wonk finding a new way to attack what Github is doing.

GitHub removes its annoying cookie banners

The EU has been trying to fix its abysmal cookie consent policy this year, but it’s going to take more drastic changes to reverse how often these prompts are displayed across the web. GitHub is a good example for a web service to set, and combined with browser vendors phasing out third-party cookies, we could see less annoying cookie walls and banners eventually. Realistically, we’re still going to be living with these annoying prompts for years to come.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22187187/microsoft-github-cookie-banner-removal