I believe previous legislation regarding cookies was a mess like you said, and a big learning process for the EU. I’ve worked with people who are experts on th

I believe previous legislation regarding cookies was a mess like you said, and a big learning process for the EU. I’ve worked with people who are experts on the new regulations. They don’t seem to be at all confused about what it means or implies. The only unknowns they’re talking about is the practicalities of someone like Facebook conforming eg requesting many different permissions. But that’s because businesses like Facebook are doing unethical stuff, ie they’ve been doing things you really won’t want to explicitly give them permission to do.