[networkadmin]

The cookie thing is just a red herring. Who gives a damn about cookies? Are they suddenly a privacy problem after decades in use? The people who want to track you (including these crooked governments who are pretending to care about cookies) are doing much more than using cookies these days. Which is exactly why they felt it safe to raise this giant kerfuffle about cookies. It's a distraction.

[treetalker]

Cookies have always been a privacy problem. That other, greater privacy invasions exist does not mean that cookies ought not be addressed or ought be tolerated.

Liberty demands the end of systems of control.

[networkadmin]

Liberty had better start polishing its musket and sharpening its sword.

[JCattheATM]

The EU, the same people that decided Windows shipping a default browser was an issue about a decade after it had actually stopped being one.