[crims0n]

Plenty of well-meaning laws have unintended consequences. Intent does not absolve being the cause of the effect.

[vkou]

This consequence is 100% intended to fuck with the UX of your website, if your business model is tracking users.

And it accomplishes that goal. A lot of people on this forum are quite unhappy about it, but that's not because it's an unforeseen consequence.

[t-writescode]

Sure, but the cookie law is a bad example of it.