> requiring explicit consent for otherwise innocuous things […] numbs people for explicit consent on actually important things. I know HN is not the right plac

> requiring explicit consent for otherwise innocuous things […] numbs people for explicit consent on actually important things. I know HN is not the right place for tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, but that sentence gave me shivers, thinking it could be the real reason those cookie consent shenanigans were mandated in the first place. It's probably not, it's probably just a power game between the EU government and US companies. But still.