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And if the regulators didn't predict such compliance they should be replaced with competent actors in their jobs.

That was the obvious outcome. What did people predict: site owners leaving money on the table? Who pays for operating the sites then?

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schmidtleonard 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When GDPR was first going through the public circuit I remember reading the proposed laws and being pleasantly surprised to find that they specifically called out and forbade the likely workarounds, including the obnoxious banners we now see everywhere.

I would love to know what happened. Did the laws get "revised" to re-open the loophole? Was superseding legislation passed? Did the courts reject it? Are there enforcement issues?

	▲	roenxi 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That sounds like a legal minefield - I would point out that GDPR-style legislation exists because the legislators don't trust the industry to assess what is reasonable. So the industry would be in a position where: 1) They aren't trusted to be reasonable about user consent. 2) They are only to take action when they judge it is reasonable to check user consent. It'd probably be a very rocky process to nail down what those words like "loophole" and "workaround" mean as the advertisers start abusing prescribed no-banner situations.
	▲	p_l 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		TL;DR the enforcement simply lacks manpower, and the most egregious cases go to court which also takes time.

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Aeolun 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All the sites that need advertising like that can just die off and leave the internet a better place.

	▲	shadowgovt 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Did we ever think that would be the end result of all this?