The whole premise of the law is wrong at a fundamental level. For cookies to function, browser (acting on behalf of the user) and website have to cooperate. F

The whole premise of the law is wrong at a fundamental level. For cookies to function, browser (acting on behalf of the user) and website have to cooperate. First, the website sends a snippet of data to the browser, the browser then stores that data, and sends it back to the server on subsequent requests. If the user doesn't want the cookies to function, all he has to do is tell his browser to stop sending the cookies back. The website has no way to forcefully store the cookies on the users computer and then snatch them back from their hard drive. The browser, and ultimately, the user, is the one that decides to store and send the cookies back. But legally, website owners are held accountable for the inability of users to stop themselves from sending the cookies back. It doesn't make sense. If the rest of the Internet worked this way, you would need to call Google on the phone and tell them that you consent to them sending you HTML before being able to load google.com on your browser.