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California Approves Privacy Bill Requiring Opt-Out Tools (www.darkreading.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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This bill requires Web browsers to have an easy-to-find (and use) setting for consumers to send an opt-out preference signal by default to every site and app they interact with.

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[–] mayo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

At its Dec. 8, 2023 board meeting, the agency noted that browsers that natively support opt-out preference signals (Mozilla Firefox, DuckDuckGo, and Brave) currently make up less than 10% of the global desktop browser market.