[lolinder]

Malicious and lazy compliance are known problems with regulations that should be accounted for in advance. California's prop 65 passed in 1986, so by the time the EU was working on the GDPR they had more than 30 years of precedent for useless warning labels stamped on everything until they lose all meaning.

Theoretically websites could choose to do better, but the EU should absolutely have predicted this outcome.

[avianlyric]

You know that prop 65 warnings don’t exist on products outside the US right? I’ve personally never seen one in the EU.

[lolinder]

Duh. I also know that governments can and do pay attention to what other governments are doing and observe the effects. It's much better to learn from someone else's mistakes!

[wincy]

It’d be nice if the same were true for all the stupid cookie banners I don’t care about.