> What a great success for usability. Forced onto us by the site operators (directly, or via their "partners"), not the regulations. It is called malicious co

> What a great success for usability. Forced onto us by the site operators (directly, or via their "partners"), not the regulations. It is called malicious compliance. In fact many of those popovers are not even properly compliant in various ways (usually breaking the "as easy to opt out as to out in" mandates, to give the most common example). If you are angry at "cookie laws" and/or GDPR, you are angry at the wrong target.