[McAlpine5892]

People complain more about cookie banners than they do the actual invasive tracking by those cookies.

Those banners suck and I wouldn't mind if the EU rolled back that law and tried another approach. At the same time, it's fairly easy to add an extension to your browser that hides them.

Legislation won't always work. It's complex and human behavior is somewhat unpredictable. We've let tech run rampant up to this point - it's going to take some time to figure out how to best control them. Throwing up our hands because it's hard to protect consumers from power multi-national corporations is a pretty silly position imo.

[seydor]

> than they do the actual invasive tracking by those cookies.

maybe people have rationally compared the harm done by those two

[Barrin92]

can you expand on what sort of rationality would lead a person to consider an at worst annoying pop-up to be more dangerous than data exfiltration to companies and governments that are already acting in adversarial ways? The US government is already using people's social media profiles against them, under the Cloud act any US company can be compelled to hand data over to the government, as Microsoft just testified in France. That's less dangerous than an info pop up?

Of course it has nothing to do with rationality. They're mad at the first thing they see, akin to the smoker who blames the regulators when he has to look at a picture of a rotten lung on a pack of cigarettes

[seydor]

gdpr doesn't stop governments. governments are already spying without permission and they exploit stolen data all the time. so yes, the cost of gdpr compliances including popups is higher than the imperceptible cost of tracked advertising.

[Barrin92]

For one that is objectively incorrect. GDPR prevents a whole host of data collection outright, shifts the burden for corporations to collecting the minimal amount of data possible, and gives you the right to explicitly consent into what data can be collected.

Being angry at a popup that merely makes transparent, what a company tries to collect from you, and giving you the explicit option to say no to that, is just infantile. It basically amounts to saying that you don't want to think about how companies are exploiting your data, and that you're a sort of internet browsing zombie. That is certainly a lot of things, but it isn't rational.