>privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

This is such bullshit and common misconcepton.

Websites DO NOT have to run cookie banners!

If you only have necessary cookie for session and do not track users, you don't have to show cookie banner. Websites that want to invade privacy must run cookie banner to ask permission.

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unmole 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Websites that want to invade privacy must run cookie banner to ask permission.

Why does the EU want to invade my privacy? https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en

	▲	Gravityloss 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://european-union.europa.eu/cookies_en I'm certainly not a web developer expert, maybe someone can break this down.

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mvdwoord 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice.

I think that is the issue here.

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bloak 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, clicking "Customize" then "Reject all" is annoying, but it beats "Copy link address", "New Incognito window", then paste and return.

	▲	nabla9 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The obvious regulatory improvement is that reject-all is default and all other options must be harder to get. ps. Current solution is use browser extension to automate rejection. Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/consent-o-matic/mdj... https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/consent-o-matic/id1606897889