> Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything. So we'd all be using o

> Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything. So we'd all be using outlook.com, bing and other alternatives now. Would've been a really bad move to just forfeit a market like that. The cookie banners do actually help a lot, as they bring awareness about privacy issues to the broader public and allow to choose which sites to use based on how hard they make it to opt-out. Laws like this are important because they make companies design for the benefit of the consumer as opposed to just for their own. And I'm gald the EU is pushing for this with the power they have while no other legal entity of similar size seems to bother.