No. The GDPR doesn't mandate those obnoxious banners so it didn't ruin the web experience. _Cookie_ banners were devised as a lazy way to comply with the ePriv

No. The GDPR doesn't mandate those obnoxious banners so it didn't ruin the web experience. _Cookie_ banners were devised as a lazy way to comply with the ePrivacy Directive, which is about cookies among other things. Now, the same lazy minds that gave us those obnoxious banners are the same that shove unrelated GDPR stuff into them and in our collective throat. _They_ "ruined the web experience".