There were certainly problems. But the GDPR and ePrivacy directives don't protect us from nefarious cross-site tracking cookies. Prior to the GDPR, websites j

There were certainly problems. But the GDPR and ePrivacy directives don't protect us from nefarious cross-site tracking cookies. Prior to the GDPR, websites just tracked us. Now they track us AND present an irritating warning that users have learnt to mindlessly "accept"