The trick of the GDPR vs those browser technologies is that there’s actually regulation because obviously the industry can not be trusted to self-regulate. Ind

The trick of the GDPR vs those browser technologies is that there’s actually regulation because obviously the industry can not be trusted to self-regulate. Indeed, there should be an enforced UI, but that’s not how the EU tends to regulate on privacy, and without EU regulation none of the companies currently trying to entirely ignore the GDPR will use it. They have put out guidance that some current attempts at pretending to comply are illegal, and I expect to see fines regarding that in the next couple of years - the difficulty is creating a solid case that isn’t going to undermine the GDPR through case law. I wonder, though, if there were a dirt simple API for consent in the browser, whether independent developers who would honestly like to comply would use it.