Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs. Petty territorial behavior. This looks like someone trying not to learn their lesson.
What would steelmaning EU regs have looked like? Not really sure what you mean by this.
A simple "decline [all]" / "accept" choice, not a huge list with dozens of sliders for dozens of options each labelled "legitimate interest" all of which are set to "Accept" by default?
I'm sorry now I'm confused. Is UI design this hard? Is this neurotypical?
This is one of the dumbest narratives I see on HN all the time. A community of people who build things for a living should know better.
Think of regulation as software designed to create an outcome in the real world.
If everyone is wrongly using/interpreting your software…the problem is not “everyone.” The problem is the design of your software.
EU sites have the same amount of cookie banners as US ones. (ie, all major sites have one)
Quite hilarious are the sites that outright block European IP addresses, as if that way they don't have to bother with the basic human right to privacy (article 8 ECHR). More sites should do this if they have no wish to play by these morals instead of having (legal or illegal) walls!
But I know I'm not a lawyer, and my lack of understanding of the technical jargon in law is likely to be similar to the lack of understanding of technical web jargon in the old screenshot of someone looking at the JS console by accident and thinking it was a secret police thingie: https://images.app.goo.gl/4SPUwbQ1uY2r5oHcA
It's not. You can report this to an appropriate civil authority and in theory it'll be resolved (possibly with a fine). In practice the authorities are still so overwhelmed by GDPR that they will only look at the most severe high profile cases. Fingers crossed one day it'll improve...