The unintended consequence of poorly thought out regulations (good or bad) can be wild.
I’m still having to deal with making some sort of legal agreement with EVERY website I visit over cookies constantly… I just don’t care anymore / click whatever.
I’m still having to deal with making some sort of legal agreement with EVERY website I visit over cookies constantly… I just don’t care anymore / click whatever.
Same goes for age ID things too.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
It also exists for other browsers.
I am not affiliated,but I have it on my devices and even on my phone, it's quite good and I very rarely get cookie popups now.
unless it's one of the big guys, devs either sell the extensions or get hacked, it has happened multiple times.
That's the problem when you want to be pro-business while keeping the vague intent of protecting privacy.
They didn't mandate cookie banner, you can either not track or add a cookie banner. Of course businesses living off surveillance capitalism will chose the cookie banner. They could have banned tracking altogether, and chose not to because “it's bad for business”.