I have plenty of websites using cookies, but because we are not invading your privacy, we don't need a banner.
You are blaming laws adding informed consent instead of the bullies that milk every cent out of spying. Instead of learning, wow the web is rotten there is so much tracking, you complain to the doctor showing you cancer in your lung.
Also, what's funny is that this banner is only legal in europe, we don't impose it on the rest of the world. Again, corporations decided it was just easier to apply it to everyone. They have a choice.
But we can't uncensor youtube content. We dont have a choice. I'd be ok with a pop up "this video contain images of september 11, do you want to watch it uncensored?" that is mandatory only to americans. But we don't have that. Instead, the video is either not published, or removed from any way to discover it.
Not to mention comparing the need for a click, and the addition of a choice to not be tracked, cannot remotely be compared to forced format for most content. It's neither of the same nature, nor the same scale.
Even if you don't agree with any of that, the initial point of the comment stands: it's a matter of power.
Wrong, it’s because the EU wrote the law so poorly that every site is able to create their own cookie gate with its own dark patterns so now we have to solve what is essentially a puzzle on every website which then decides of we’re tracked or not.
If it had been written competently it would have been a browser setting and we’d have never seen a dialog once.
Sure the intentions were good but the action on those intentions adds up to wasting probably hours or people’s time a year considering it’s every single major website.
The companies choose whether to continue acting badly (but having to tell you, if you're in the EU); or to act kindly and so have no need to inform you they're doing something malicious.
There is already a "do not track" setting in browsers. Companies choose whether to annoy you or not.
But instead they had to make a new thing that’s just ended up being abused. The face sites can even force you to wait a few seconds if you don’t opt in is insane.
There is no reason why it had to be a dialog, it’s just an arbitrary choice by career bureaucrats that now we have to experience at least once a day.
And, realistically, the cookie banner addresses this how?