The legislation proposed the most obvious solution: - just don’t collect anything, don’t even require cookies From there every significant actors of the indus

The legislation proposed the most obvious solution: - just don’t collect anything, don’t even require cookies From there every significant actors of the industry, short of firefox and Apple (perhaps Microsoft ?) just went on looking for the other ways, workarounds, anything to keep their business as close as it is now. That going as far as completely cutting off whole swaths of users just to not bend to the rules. Blame the players cheating and conspiring to bend the game and ignore or weaken any attempt to limit their reach.