• Dalvoron@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Excellent points, but the cookie banners were a response to the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. In fact the banners predate GDPR by about a decade! I know this because I decided to make my own banner that was slightly less annoying about five years before GDPR was a thing.

    Funnily enough most of your points are still correct precisely because, as you say, “most people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners”.