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What's your source for regulators sending emails to sites not having banners for essential cookies?

For that specific question, none; I'm extrapolating from past experience, mostly not mine but other people's (who told me stories).

For regulators in general doing dumb things? Lots and lots of examples all over the place. Talk to any small-business owners you know, get them drunk, and encourage them to rant. You'll hear some stories.

For that specific question, none. End.

So you don't believe in extrapolating from past experiences elsewhere? Good luck with that as you go through life. Personally, I don't do anything so formal as calculating Markov chains, but I certainly think that patterns of past behavior allow you to guess what other people are likely to do.

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