The cookie law is the ePrivacy Directive 2002,[1] not GDPR. And as a user, I would much rather control my privacy preferences regarding cookies from my own brow

The cookie law is the ePrivacy Directive 2002,[1] not GDPR. And as a user, I would much rather control my privacy preferences regarding cookies from my own browser, instead of within hundreds of different implementations across websites. We already have P3P to allow websites to declare how they want to use your information. European legislation should have focused on leveraging these existing tools and protocols to give control to the user, instead of annoying them with endless pop-ups. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communications_Directive_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...