[Nursie]

I enjoy the first paragraph, but the second...

You can do that, of course many of us do. But can the average user? Does the average user even know this sort of tracking goes on? And that just blocking cookies is a small part of the battle?

The cookie law was a crude measure, but with both that law and the GDPR something crucial always gets missed -

You don't need the banners if you're not doing this stuff.

[Aerroon]

>You can do that, of course many of us do. But can the average user?

Isn't that the point? To make the average user aware. Every little bit helps when spreading awareness.

The other thing is that if you allow those cookies by default then a site that doesn't care about EU law can still track you whenever they want.

>You don't need the banners if you're not doing this stuff.

And yet even the EU commission's own site has one: https://www.europa.eu

[chrischen]

> You can do that, of course many of us do. But can the average user? Does the average user even know this sort of tracking goes on? And that just blocking cookies is a small part of the battle?

Well, if the average user can't configure their browser to block cookies, then forcing every website to implement a popup to re-implement cookie blocking on a semi-voluntary basis (a feature already available on the client side) seems nonsensical.

[dylan-m]

> You don't need the banners if you're not doing this stuff.

Ah, but now that every website under the sun has the banner, nobody thinks twice about them beyond (in the back of their minds) "these are annoying" and "fie on the EU and their foolishness". Much like every overused obtrusive dialogue box in the history of graphical interfaces, users learn to dismiss it and whatever it was trying to achieve eventually becomes irrelevant.

[wh1t3n01s3]

With Brave browser it’s trivial to stop the crookies, even for the average user. Problem is, no average user uses Brave.

[plantain]

Average users are certainly discovering Brave and other privacy extensions.

I know, because they're regularly writing me confused and angry emails complaining legitimate functionality on my websites is broken as a result of them.