[crazygringo]

No, that's entirely Europe. The outcome of the legislation was easy for anyone to see. As you say, it was blinkered and short-sighted. And I still have to click 20 popups away on mobile every day.

If only a few websites had the banner, then maybe I'd blame those websites. But when they virtually all do, I blame the law.

[cycomanic]

Actually the legislation is fine, much better than before. It's the enforcement that's lacking.

I'd say >90% of cookie banners break the law. It's just that enforcement is only slowly catching up. We have already seen a couple of cases and I expect that as soon as there have been more rulings banners will start to dissappear or become much simpler.

[crazygringo]

What basis do you have for saying they would disappear?

I've never heard anyone suggest that.

(And them becoming "simpler" is irrelevant. As far as unwanted interruptions go, a popup is a popup.)

[drcongo]

Just out of interest, you prefer to have your data harvested and sold?

[AnimalMuppet]

How about: Don't harvest and sell my data, and don't show me a bunch of popups about exactly what data you can collect on me?

[drcongo]

That is of course the ideal, but what, you're just gonna trust them?

[crazygringo]

I don't trust a popup a single bit more than no popup.

So it's not like I trust anything either way. Get rid of the popups. Any solution needs to be legal and not involve popups.

[beebeepka]

don't use tracking cookies. so complicated!