It’s legal already, websites are just being overly cautious. You just need to not be using third party ads and analytics software, more or less, and you’re in

It’s legal already, websites are just being overly cautious. You just need to not be using third party ads and analytics software, more or less, and you’re in the clear. The cookie banner is a nice CYA “we do it because everyone does it” kind of thing, and most people don’t care about degrading the UX because what’s the user gonna do, NOT read our content? And also everyone else does it so shrug. GDPR is pretty sensible overall. The cookie banner is ad companies making it as painful and difficult as possible to reject their crap. Most of these banners are automatically inserted by the third party libraries people pull, not even by the site authors themselves.