I never understood the crying about the cookie banners

They're not the problem, they never have been. It's the fact that so many parts of the modern internet rely on selling user data to make a profit, not the regulation that they now have to do the outrageous thing and (gasp) ask for consent first.

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immibis a day ago | parent [-]

The problem with GDPR and cookie banners is that GDPR allows the cookie banners to be worded so indirectly. "To improve our service we share collected information with 5723 partners..."

If the law would force them to say "Do you want Larry Ellison to get richer by looking through your webcam? [Yes] [No]" it would be a good law.

	▲	MiddleEndian a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ideally it would just be like the Do Not Track flag, with one flag for each category of opt-out tracking, but actually enforced (even if on by default) so no popups would be needed at all.
	▲	CalRobert a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It doesn’t. That’s violating gdpr. But you can break gdpr without consequences.