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they're not the only route to GDPR compliance.

But if it was the easiest and cheapest. Their lack of basic foresight is painful and has made the web worse.

You cannot blame the EU on having many websites making poor product decision and customers being content with crappy websites. Just stop visiting websites that have those banners and write angrily about it too their support. If enough people do the same, the law will work as intended.

You cannot blame the EU on having many websites making poor product decision and customers being content with crappy websites.

I absolutely can blame the EU, prior to these regulations these cookie banners didn't plague the web. Virtually no one's privacy has increased because these regulations but almost everyone's web experience has been made worse because of these regulations.

If enough people do the same, the law will work as intended.

How many more years do we have to wait for this happen? This HN post exist because FireFox is having to create a brand new feature to handle this garbage on its own.

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