Yeah, this sounds like “roll back one of the most important part of both the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR”, mitigated only by the possibility of something like D

Yeah, this sounds like “roll back one of the most important part of both the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR”, mitigated only by the possibility of something like Do-Not-Track being given legal weight. (Though I don’t imagine they’ll actually follow through on that part in that form, or most browsers that aren’t Chrome will set their defaults so.) Businesses don’t like those rules. And they have tended to pretend to comply (but not actually comply) in such a way as to convince people to dislike them too.