> The main cause with the "cookie law" is that the law as written failed to implement the intent; the intent was to reduce tracking by cookies, but the actual r

> The main cause with the "cookie law" is that the law as written failed to implement the intent; the intent was to reduce tracking by cookies, but the actual requirement could be satisfied by those obnoxious warnings while doing tracking as before, and so it was. The "cookie law" states quite clearly that you have to be able to say no and also explicitly states that it's only about tracking. The problem was that it was en EU directive and the member states implemented it quite differently (some not at all, claiming it already being covered by existing law) which led to a lot of confusion and companies getting away with those annoying OK-button banners.