> It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies.
I just check some web pages from diffrent organs of the EU:
They all have cookie banners, some of them are super prominent and annoying. So maybe they as well are doing malicious things, maybe they don't understand they own regulation, or it is just impossible to have a non-trivial web page without a cookie banner in 2023. In either case, the regulation is totally dettached from reality and has become just some ritual.
> regulation is totally dettached from reality and has become just some ritual
not completely wrong.
ime in the case of the cookie law, most ppl didn't actually bother to go into details and just took the word on the street and some existing 'solution' and called it a day since everybody was doing it this way and sales/executives were pleased.
fact remains: cookie banner is _not_ necessary for logins and most existing banners are outright illegal since 'no' is not an easily accessible option
I just check some web pages from diffrent organs of the EU:
https://commission.europa.eu/select-language?destination=/no...
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/european-council/
https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/ins...
They all have cookie banners, some of them are super prominent and annoying. So maybe they as well are doing malicious things, maybe they don't understand they own regulation, or it is just impossible to have a non-trivial web page without a cookie banner in 2023. In either case, the regulation is totally dettached from reality and has become just some ritual.