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> completely stupid "cookie law"

It doesn't take a genius to figure out:

  Before GDPR: No cookie banners
  After GDPR: Cookie banners

Who's to blame is irrelevant. Users don't care and the effects are real whether it is put on directly by companies as an indirect result of GDPR.

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Cookie banners were a thing before the GDPR - the stupid "cookie law" aka ePrivacy Directive was a thing much earlier on.

The main problem however is the lack of enforcement though. None of these "cookie banners" comply with the GDPR, yet are allowed to proliferate because nobody is cracking down on them, so they're a form of pseudo-compliance that is very effective at swaying public opinion against the GDPR.

Good point. If this is not an indictment of the failure of GDPR, I don’t know what is.

Hot take: Only way to undo past damage is to now make the cookie/consent banner illegal.

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