> How well did the whole GDPR thing work out? Very well, actually. >All they did was made the web experience worse with cookie pop up banners. That was not t

> How well did the whole GDPR thing work out? Very well, actually. >All they did was made the web experience worse with cookie pop up banners. That was not the GDPR. The GDPR does not talk about cookies anywhere. It's the ePrivacy Directive (from 2002, amended in 2009) that deals with cookies (or any type of storage on an end user's device). It's the ePD that says if you set cookies and it's not strictly necessary to provide the service then you must get consent. The only change the GDPR made in this area was tightening up the definition of "consent" to actually mean consent and not merely lack of disapproval.