> The legislation is really good actually; it orders sites that want to place tracking cookies (Google Analytics for example relies on this) to request consent

> The legislation is really good actually; it orders sites that want to place tracking cookies (Google Analytics for example relies on this) to request consent from the user before they're allowed to do so. That's all it requests. The problem is that “tracking cookies” is defined so broadly that it can be interpreted as nearly any kind of cookie, and risk-averse legal teams want to make sure they have all their bases covered.