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Western, mostly UK an EU, regulators are dumb. They wanted to help their citizens with privacy, instead the whole world gets annoying cookie pop ups. Boomer energy is too strong in the Western world.

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The UK government is considering withdrawing the requirement for consent to cookies from UK law. To be clear this was an EU Import into UK regulation.

It was an import to US regulation as well.

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