Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar/
@codinghorror The EU didn't force cookie notifications. The tech industry found cookie banners as a (bad) way to uphold GDPR, and that became the norm, but the GDPR text only talks about cookies once, saying "Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as IP addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as RFID tags." There is a very simple way to respect GDPR without a cookie banner: don't use cookies for your 256 "partners" that syphon all user interactions by default, and make functional but optional cookies opt-in on the elements they require (for instance, a Google Maps element can be unloaded by default and have a small text with a button on it, explaining that it requires consent to send data to Google). So really, the only thing that shouldn't be taken seriously regarding cookie notifications is the good will of web developers.
