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One of the clearest examples of this to me is the requirement to show consent to store cookies. This just simply ruined web surfing experience, where now every

• Anamon 2y ago
  AFAIK there is no general requirement to ask for consent. For example, to store session tokens or language preferences. A lot of sites probably wouldn't have to show cookie consent prompts, if they don't share profiling data with third parties or do other shady stuff, but still show them because they're afraid of doing it wrong or because everybody else seems to be doing it. It's been a while since I read the text of the law, but I remember thinking that the line from which consent was required seemed reasonably drawn and that websites who cross it are right to be forced to declare what exactly they do. There was a post about this recently, titled something like "there is no cookie banner law". An option for a general setting may be nice. I personally approximate it by only accepting cookies from whitelisted domains, and using ad blocking filter lists to hide cookie consent prompts.