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I disagree. It's the over-regulation that calls for these pain in the ass implementations.

Downvote all you want, but you're in denial. GDPR and the like are nothing more than "privacy theater". I work in this industry and know it very well. Cookie opt outs or forced opt-ins on publisher pages aren't helping anyone with anything. The whole thing is just a farce so that they can enforce this against bigger tech companies when they want to. They should just tax them outright and save us all the trouble.

No kidding. The first sign is how intrusive it all is. The second sign is how ineffective it is at anything web / crime related people actually care about (normal people).

On HN it's like - go ahead and let me cable company and cell phone company track / sell and target me on my browsing history (wildly intrusive), but random website doing pet necklaces, try to stay on top of all the popups you need to shove at your users (who will all say OK) so you can show your page.

If you can't share the data you buy up the other companies into groups and then are just using it "yourself" etc.

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