Yes, they should have just elevated the Do Not Track flag to legal status. If the flag is on, tracking cookies forbidden. Easy. It would have solved the cookie

Yes, they should have just elevated the Do Not Track flag to legal status. If the flag is on, tracking cookies forbidden. Easy. It would have solved the cookie banner problem entirely. Some browsers have already removed it but I'm sure they would have put it back of the EU actually made this feature useful. I don't know why they didn't use it in the law. Probably advertiser lobby because it's much easier to coerce the user into agreeing when they control the process (dark patterns)