So if the law couldn't be written in a rational way without creating bizarre outcomes, then why create it at all?
When you create legislation, you're implicitly saying; "these rules we're writing down are important enough to enforce with the full monopoly on violence given the powers of government." The cookie popups seem extremely silly in that context.
I don't doubt you've run across some well-intentioned people. But as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Seeing a structurally dysfunctional system from the inside, and being able to empathize with the individuals in it, does not make the design of the system any less dysfunctional.
Cookie popups are bad, but they're pretty similar to a no smoking or no parking sign. In this case, it's the reverse. The whole internet bans cookies, but it informs you that you're entering a cookie zone.
These companies may think they're protesting the cookie law with popups but it's achieved what I expected it to achieve. It's given me fair warning that the site intends to track and monetize me, so I can walk away if I don't think it's worth it. And it adds a higher cost to it too.
> So if the law couldn't be written in a rational way without creating bizarre outcomes, then why create it all?
Nobody said that, I don't know why you're saying it, because it also makes no sense.
Do you also believe that we shouldn't have made murder illegal because murderer still exist?
There are always gonna be bizzare outcomes, pop-ups only speak about how lousy advertisers and tracking freaks are, but there have been certainly more bizzare outcomes, think about people refusing vaccines...
Compared to that pop-ups are just an annoyance that we can avoid by punishing the perpetrators directly not visiting their websites.
> But as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions
it's all simple, until you have to convince hundreds of politicians to agree on a law that's gonna be enforced on 450 million people from 27 different countries, with 27 different legal systems.
When you create legislation, you're implicitly saying; "these rules we're writing down are important enough to enforce with the full monopoly on violence given the powers of government." The cookie popups seem extremely silly in that context.
I don't doubt you've run across some well-intentioned people. But as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Seeing a structurally dysfunctional system from the inside, and being able to empathize with the individuals in it, does not make the design of the system any less dysfunctional.