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by jinushaun 822 days ago
The problem is not GDPR. It’s that websites are addicted to Google Analytics and things like it. Like the article states, the cookie banner is not in the GDPR law. The banner is malicious compliance.

The only way to explain it is mass hysteria. Someone did the banner first and everyone thinks that’s what you need to do to comply and everyone copied.

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> Someone did the banner first and everyone thinks that’s what you need to do to comply and everyone copied.

I don't think so. Most sites have teams big enough to know what they are doing, and they know this is the only way to "comply" while still being able to continue business as usual.

> The banner is malicious compliance.

That must be why https://gdpr.eu has a cookie banner /s