[olalonde]

Lawmakers should have foreseen this would be the consequence of the law and not have gone through with it.

[shakna]

The law does mandate that opting out should be as easy as opting in. The choices are meant to be equal. It is simply that no one is actually compliant.

[olalonde]

They could and should have foreseen this as well.

[jabwd]

It is all in the law, the problem is enforcement. 99% of the cookie banners on the web you'll encounter are in fact illegal.