[unmole]

Even the EU's own website has a cookie banner: https://european-union.europa.eu

The only thing that stupid rule achieved is to make the web ever so slightly annoying to use.

[j_maffe]

It allows people to say no and maintain their private data. Privacy might be meaningless to you but it's important for a lot of people and if browsing will be slightly more annoying to use due to malicious compliance by some websites, so be it.