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Ridiculous EU cookie law.

And to add further ridicule, the current advice is that these kinds of popups are superfluous, and just have a cookie info page on the site.

See http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-de...

So far i have only ever seen those on UK pages, anyway. Either the rest of the EU (or germany) doesn't care or solves it in a much more unobtrusive way.

It's an EU thing, not just the UK. But yeah, they're irritating!

Which isn't even a law.

How so? Its an EU directive.