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Comment by ekianjo | Hacker News Reader

Yeah making everyone waste time on every site with the cookies warnings is something we should all be grateful for the EU.

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The dark patterns to make the rejection 5 clicks while acceptance is just 1 click are not the responsibility of EU.

Actually they are. It was ruled that if you can accept all in one click, you must be able to reject all in one equally easy, equally prominent click, or you're violating the law.

Ha nice! They should start to enforce then, because what you get is "accept" and "configure", and if you select the latter here starts the click galore.

They do enforce, but only if they already dislike you for other reasons.

See their cases against Meta, for example.

There's also basically nothing they can do again foreign websites.

While the GDPR was le grand coup, it’s sad they can’t revert mistakes. Which begs the question: Why doesn’t every site put the EU flag as a background of the cookie banner, until the EU reckons?

Reckons what?

No one forced site owners to suck out personal information from customers to sell them to the highest bidder. A normal, human respecting website doesn't even need a consent banner.

People are normalizing egregious behavior.

Until the public demands the EU to revert the tracking cookie law because the public is stupid.

Nothing in the law requires these obnoxious banners. It's the companies who decided that they want to sell your data to thousands of trackers.

When will the industry reckon?

I wish there were browser apis for cookie prefs already. Just set it at the browser and all sites just use that setting. But of course Google can't do that since they want people to be bombarded by cookie banners and agitate for an end to GDPR

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