[notriddle]

I’m convinced that a lot of the really annoying cookie prompts are the result of two things:

* paranoia, from small websites that are understandably worried about massive fines that could actually put their one-man-show into the poor house

* retaliation, from large websites that intentionally want to turn public sentiment against privacy laws

[shadowgovt]

We were naive if we ever thought the end result would be otherwise.