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by m00dy 1055 days ago
yes, it is a terrible experience...I personally think GDPR and thinking about user data is a great thing to have. But, the actual implementation is terribe. Like consent banner etc... I can tell 100% that whoever made this law is not a techie person. They wanted to solve a technical problem, like sharing user data without consent, through the law system that we used to...It would be a lot better if they forced this as a part of http protocol...So that we could have our pre-defined consent answers...I mean right now, we have no standart way to say no to any consent banner. You have to understand the consent banner, understand the options, evaluate them, and then process the outcome...You have to do this for all websites that you are visiting...

Yes, please fork http...EU, you can do that...I know it...

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The consent banners you complain about are not due to GDPR it is a different law plus a compliant website makes it as easy to reject cookies as it does to accept them.
I can feel that you are from EU. Just because the way you defend your arguments sounds so european. But, let me whisper it to your ears, this thing is shit bro. Literally, I'm spending hours looking at screen and this consent banner pops out almost every minute...I keep my right to take this to the court if I'm diagnosed with schizophrenia or whatever.
I am not in Europe - I am British and we left.

The popu repeating is definitely not due to EU legislation. You should only get it once and it shjould offer you the choice to accept all or reject all or optionally the complex choosing.

If it pops up every minute it is the website that is doing it wrong sue them.