> I wonder how many Billions or Trillions environmental protection costs companies.
> Pretty much every company has to fight with it. Hire lawyers, change machines, implement "dangerous waste disposal" etc.
> The craziest part is that environmental protection has a competitive disadvantage for companies built in: Companies have to demonstrate their pollution prevention even for users outside of the EU. While non-European companies only have to do so for users in the EU.
Analogy aside, no company has to show any banners, you just have to respect your users rights to privacy. All companies may use as many cookies as they want as long as they're strictly necessary for the sites operation.