[petcat]

> I think blaming the EU for cookie banners is wrong. Those banners are malicious disobedience, and, for the most part a legal violation.

The EU's own government websites are littered with the obnoxious cookie banners [1].

It's an unbelievably thoughtless and misguided law that has unfortunately ruined the internet. I think a lot of people rightfully blame the EU and they're terrible lawmaking for this nonsense.

https://european-union.europa.eu

[zamadatix]

I don't seem to get them from outside the EU (even with my adblocker disabled), so a law saying they need an annoying banners I agree to before they go for it might actually be a step up.

[willvarfar]

At least it has a 'only necessary cookies' option and you don't have to click through a lot of 'settings' to get them off.

[pmontra]

It's also easy to hide with the element picker of uBO. It's a DOM element with a straightforward id #cookie-consent-banner