Aren't the VAT requirements going in the exactly opposite direction then? Is it good for privacy that a bunch of different - and of questionable security - tax

Aren't the VAT requirements going in the exactly opposite direction then? Is it good for privacy that a bunch of different - and of questionable security - tax offices have to know who and where you were exactly when you purchased your sex toys? C'mon man the cookie thing is a silly PR gesture, with measurable economic cost in the time it takes to dismiss all those dialogs in your tiny phone screen. It has done nothing, absolutely nada measurable in attitudes towards tracking.