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hate to say that but "check your privilege".

You know what cookies are and made your informed decision to accept them in your browsers. I do not, for example, and block most of them.

99% of internet users do not had that knowledge before those "stupid click-through warnings everywhere".

So if you want to write off the outcome of the EU cookie law, it is not "entitled Californian software engineers got a little annoyed", but instead "the whole world woke up to the fact advertising companies are tracking everything they do online via cookies".