> Obviously EU directives and laws apply in EU The EU designed these regulations to be viral and compel the world into compliance. The world does not need to c

> Obviously EU directives and laws apply in EU The EU designed these regulations to be viral and compel the world into compliance. The world does not need to comply, and largely does not. Multinational corporations with physical presence within the EU need to comply - but nobody else does, nor should they. > read the directives and implementations yourself, then get back to me. So we're arguing this down-thread of an article claiming our fuzzy European friends wasted nearly 600,000,000 hours last year clicking "I Accept" over and over? Seems like a well-designed regulation that's totally working super-duper well for the EU. Totally cut down on cookies!