There’s nothing wrong with cookie laws in the EU, they don’t exist anymore and have been completely replaced by GDPR. GDPR is a pretty simple law, if you want

There’s nothing wrong with cookie laws in the EU, they don’t exist anymore and have been completely replaced by GDPR. GDPR is a pretty simple law, if you want to collect personal data on people, you need to get their informed consent. Just like you need their informed consent to have sex with them. How you get that consent is up to each company, but GDPR lays some pretty clear rules about what doesn’t count as informed consent. Such as creating flows or pop ups that encourage people to click accept button, or by trying to bundle multiple unrelated consents together under a single button. How you present that UI isn’t specified, you could use a cookie banner, or you could just respect Do No Track headers etc. Equally the law doesn’t care if you use cookies, or local storage or anything else. It only cares if your collecting personal data. Not how you’re collecting it. If you’re using cookies for legitimate reasons like enabling user sessions, no need for a banner, you’re not collecting personal data without consent. Companies have chosen this hellscape of cookie banner etc in an attempt to skirt the law and avoid doing what should be doing. Letting people use the internet without having their every click tracked and aggregated. Thankfully we’re now starting to see more enforcement showing this type of bullshit won’t be tolerated. Soon people will start getting rid of cookie banner etc, once it becomes clear that their a fig leaf that won’t protect them from legal repercussions, and that they’ll make more money by asking for consent nicely and not punishing people for refusing.