The EU forcing this garbage is one of the worst things to happen to the web.
Whoever's bright idea that forcing an annoying banner on users was going to make any company currently employing tracking think even for a microsecond about not tracking needs to have their head examined.
Because you employ tracking you're legally obligated to make someone else's life more annoying is a brilliant piece of legislation.
You don't have to choose between those.
Revenue tracking is clearly necessary; `SUM(total) FROM orders` hardly violates the GDPR. Conversion tracking can be done in an anonymized fashion, or via things like coupon codes. Plenty of business metrics left to go on.
The EU correctly decided the balance of things was too far in the corporate direction versus the consumer direction.
Even changed browsers, deleted all cookies, and disabled my adblocker. Might it be a regional thing? My IP address is geolocated in the EU.
This would count as a functional cookie.
> performance monitoring cookies
Your web server doesn't need a cookie to tell you how long it took to process my request.
But if it was the easiest and cheapest. Their lack of basic foresight is painful and has made the web worse.
I absolutely can blame the EU, prior to these regulations these cookie banners didn't plague the web. Virtually no one's privacy has increased because these regulations but almost everyone's web experience has been made worse because of these regulations.
> If enough people do the same, the law will work as intended.
How many more years do we have to wait for this happen? This HN post exist because FireFox is having to create a brand new feature to handle this garbage on its own.
How exactly have these banners prevented that?