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In pre-Brexit Britain we were promised less friction on the internet because we wouldn't have to accept cookies [1].

Who would have thought there would be more friction for just about every part of British life? /s

[1] https://preprod.metro.co.uk/2021/08/27/no-more-cookie-pop-up...

I get your dislike of Brexit (and such sentiments get votes on HN) but this isn’t ‘friction because of Brexit’ - a post Brexit government could choose to not do this at all, or choose to implement something better.

It’s just an implementation of a crappy idea by a crappy government.

Setting aside Brexit itself, the government currently in power were elected partly on promises to cut such friction, not increase it.

But yeah, it's a crappy, incompetent government who are currently announcing all kinds of badly thought out populist ideas to distract attention from the trouble their leader is in.

Hah the irony of clicking that link!

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