Who will be liable for "defective" directives and regulations? I would like to sue someone for all the wasted time and effort around cookie popups.
If the industry didn't want cookie popups, perhaps they should have respected the DNT header[1].
It's really simple, you'll get no more cookies ever. That tracking vector is totally disabled and you have full control over it. There's absolutely no need for a cookie banner for a person to be free of cookies.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-...
[0] "Yes! You are unique among the 2926891 fingerprints in our entire dataset." https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
Didn't work, instead many more people (at least here in EU) are now aware how how bad the spying has become.
If you would refrain sharing that info, you wouldn't need to ask for consent. There is no law that asks for cookie popups
Fortunately there are in fact cookieless analytics systems that people can use to get this information why not being required to have the stupid cookie popup.
1. You don't need cookies or profiling for that - use Simple Analytics et. al.
2. You can ask for my consent, but you can't profile me against my will
3. A brick and mortar store does not profile me without my consent.
(Not using loyalty cards or CCs)
But there is also the e-privacy directive (older than GDPR) that does require a cookie popup for any cookie not strictly required to deliver the service. Regardless of whether it tracks PII. So this also applies if for example you only want to know whether someone is a returning visitor or a new visitor without storing any identifier.
Still, the GDPR obviously had some "bugs" which let companies get away with basically showing you "we're tracking you, click OK". Which is a waste of time for the companies and users and doesn't improve users' privacy in any way. So, it was a faulty law that caused damages
They not only do some shoddy attempt of malicious compliance, they don't even do it actually right, for example EU law says if you have an accept all button, you must have a reject all button, but they don't do that.
Also the law doesn't give an exception for "legitimate interest", yet when you open their menu to disable manually everything (that by the law, should be disabled by default, except cookies essential to keep the site working), they have a bunch of random tracking cookies enabled because it is "legitimate interest". I think the only reason they weren't sued out of existence yet, is because it is a US company, thus they don't have to actually follow EU laws or something. (or they act like that, at least, I am not a lawyer).
EDIT: linkedin link to the offending company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getadmiral/
The EU essentially mandated popups.