> Using the internet in the UK/EU is such a horrible experience, every cookie pop-up is a reminder how badly thought out these rules are.

Technical cookies don't require any consent so every time you see a cookie banner the website owner wants to gather more data about you than necessary. Furthermore, these rules don't require cookie banners, it's what the industry has chosen as the way to get consent to track their users.

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mnmalst 2 days ago | parent [-]

Or the website owner doesn't want to take the risk and ads a banner even if the site strictly doesn't need one.

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ryandrake 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

So when I see a tracking cookie dialog on a web site, either 1. the site collects more data than they need to in order to run the site or 2. they don't and the site's management is incompetent. Both are pretty good reasons to avoid that particular web site.

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aveao 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

that seems like an issue with the website owner to me

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reorder9695 2 days ago | parent [-]

A lot of websites for smaller businesses will not be run by technical people, they'll be run by business people or otherwise who don't understand cookies beyond "I see cookie banners on every website I visit, therefore to avoid legal trouble I need one too", you can't expect someone like that to understand the difference between tracking cookies and technical cookies.

	▲	Aachen 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		We're a small business, <10FTE, and have no cookie notice at all. We don't track people.

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littlestymaar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There's no risk, they know what they are doing because the law doesn't just mandate the banner, it mandates you to know which third party service you're sharing the data to.

Check the banner next time, you'll see how many “partners” they do sell your data to.