> Regarding EU, you said that forcing websites to put UI dialogs asking for accepting cookies is a good consumer protection? The EU did not require those cooki

> Regarding EU, you said that forcing websites to put UI dialogs asking for accepting cookies is a good consumer protection? The EU did not require those cookie pop-ups. Websites could have used no cookie popups and let users go to the website settings (or an "allow cookies" checkbox in the top right corner of every normal page) to turn on cookies. Instead, websites added annoying cookie pop-ups to maliciously comply or added third-party cookie banners "on accident" because the not-lawyer website owners didn't realize that the GDPR didn't ask for cookie pop-ups.