[dagorenouf]

I don’t know why everybody trusts government bodies to act fast and delegate authority as needed when it’s clearly not how things happen in the real world. The nature of government is to be slow, safe and long-term, not enable technological disruption.

For example the cookie law has made most websites significantly less enjoyable and everybody hates it and yet it has been stuck for years, no hope of improvement in sight.

[tiedieconderoga]

Exactly, standards should be durable and predictable. They need slow, lumbering curators.

When it comes to overbroad laws like the cookies thing, lazy malicious adherence is the name of the game. Simply block JavaScript from domains like "cookielaw.org", and you'll never see the dialogs.

Is it legal that the website doesn't ask for your consent if you block random third parties from executing code on your machine? Who cares!