[Grimblewald]

I get resistsnce. GDPR is good in theory but implementation has been shocking. Dark patterns in banners, banners when not required (ie no relevant cookies) etc. the gdpr banners as a whole make the internet a shitter experience. I categorically refuse work on anything requiring gdpr specific compliance and recommend against any practices which would require it on work I accept, and walk if demanded anyway.

I'm lucky in that I mostly work in areas where it really has no value add, and so far always get my way, but fuck I wish GDPR banners had some form of standard that didn't wreck internet experience in general.

Was it too hard to require the already opt-in nature of the cookies to no fuck with average user experience? no one in their right mind clicks accept all.

Was it too hard to enforce some default stance one can set?

Was it too hard to not fuck everything up without fixing the issue?

apprently. so now i have to constantly read and interpret information I have zero interest in to consistently hit the exact same button, to access information I _might_ be interested in. all of which is an excercise in dark pattern gymanastics so draining im near ready to swear off the open web entierly.

[hermanzegerman]

Just use an Add-On like Consent-O-Matic

[Grimblewald]

given dark patterns employed to date, what makes you think this would generally work? If i wanted to capture all consent-o-matic users, I'd simply use text of buttons that don't line up with what the buttons descriptors are. human users are still able to hit the correct buttons succesfully but automated scripts start submitting "please, 3d scan my rectum at your first conveniance" style settings, and you'd never know unless you start using a whole suite of addons to prevent scripts form other sites, tracking cookies etc. from loaidng which itself suffering an arms race of its own that corporate interest is an attrition heavyweight in.

So, my problem remains, why do I now need an extra point of failure to surf the web due to something that was supposed to make it less, not more, hostile to do?

One could have acheived the same by simply banning addblock and cookie block detection. Simply let users set, in any privacy friendly browser or addon, whatever they like, and have it work reliably because industry isnt allowed to subvert.

Acheives the same while introducing less moving parts. the web is crazy bloated as it is, we need to trim back not stack on more.