Strong data privacy is good. Dumb side effects that serve no one are not. Cookie banners, or California's "is known to cause cancer" on virtually _everything_ serve no purpose and should be re-designed.
The EU law doesn’t say you must have banners. If your site doesn’t collect information on users, it doesn’t need a banner.
Also the banner, if there is one, must have a 1-Click "reject all" button.
Most sites fail to fully comply, because they want to force (annoy) users into clicking on "leave me alone I don’t care" button to keep selling user data. They make you go to some overly bloated list of things to disable, scroll all the way down to finally "confirm my choices". It’s voluntarily painful and with misleading wording.
These sites want you to believe that all this clunkyness is required by the EU law. It’s not. It’s the good old mislead-into-approval strategy, using dark patterns and blame-the-EU rethoric.
