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You’re missing the point of the article. The banner is only needed if your business relies on handing over info about the user to 3rd party. And yes, it’s reasonable to make sure user knows about it. The fact that these pop ups are annoying is the fault of the creator, not the regulation.

Try accessing Apple.com or iCloud.com. No cookie pop up, yet one of the most successful businesses in history. You don’t have to be annoying

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What info? My IP address and the pages I've visited inside their site? By visiting a site I know I'm giving that info to them, they can do whatever they want with it.

Not without breaking the law.

Which is why it's a stupid law that has made everybody's lives worse, both the businesses and the users.

Why is it a stupid law? Why should businesses be free to look up the IP and figure out who is looking at their page? An IP can reveal a lot of information, especially if there's servers hanging off of it.

> What info?

Any personally identifiable information.

GDPR is not a complex law no matter how shady businesses and clueless devs are trying to tell you. It's also been in effect for 7 years. You'd think it's enough time to have at least some clue on what it's about.

And yet we still have these inane threads on HN claiming it's about cookie popups, and people having no idea what info trackers collect.

That's great if youre fine with it. I'm not. I don't want some shitty, 3rd rate, ad slinging company to know what websites I visited.

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