[adhesive_wombat]

Don't collect any information you don't actually have to, and if you do hold personal information, treat it basically like you'd want your own information treated, and you're basically good. It's really that simple.

The only people who think it's particularly hard or onerous are the people referenced by "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

[scarface74]

I don’t deal with the clusterf%%% of modern front end development. I’m just tired of seeing cookie banners everywhere.

Did the law in anyway make my life better?

[adhesive_wombat]

Obnoxious banners are not required under GDPR. In fact, unless denying consent is as easy as granting it, they're illegal.

It's not the law's fault that companies would rather implement such detrimental UX than either give up the teat of personal data or give people their rights.

It is, however, the fault of regulators for not stamping down on such behaviour when it is against both the letter and spirit of the law.

And, honestly, I consider the fact that so many websites are forced to admit that they are trying to take and sell my data to be positive.

[scarface74]

Why do I care whose “fault” it is? Did government intervention make my life better or worse?

As Reagan said the most dangerous words in the English language “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.

[naniwaduni]

The great "mistake" of GDPR is that it has consent provisions at all.

After previous cookie banners, they really should've known better. (Or, let's be real, absolutely did know, but left it in for corporate interests anyway.)