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by WhyNotHugo 60 days ago
> the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups

The EU didn’t make these mandatory. They’re a form of malicious compliance, executed so that the common perception is that these laws are there to get in the way of regular folks.

Most websites shouldn’t require cookie pop-up. They do because they’re spying on you in some way and need to notify you of that.