I set up a nice little webpage, that did not use any tracking at all. There was one cookie for a home-brew login functionality, and even that was only linked to

I set up a nice little webpage, that did not use any tracking at all. There was one cookie for a home-brew login functionality, and even that was only linked to an extremely limited amount of data (namely, the login name, and the password, didn't even mandate email...). By all means, this one cookie - whose use was completely voluntary - was a 'technical cookie' which I do not need consent for under the EU's cookie laws. It took about 30 minutes after the go-live before the first madmen came around and started shouting at me that I needed a cookie banner. The problem with that law is not only that it caused everyone to set up a cookie banner to operate as they used to, it also is that it created a class of people who are self-declared data protection vigilantes. I do consider publishing on Gopher (or Gemini) in the future, if only to prevent zealots - who often have no technical knowledge - from accessing my services. The people I address are capable - and willing - to use other protocols.