Why then do they make the most annoying, user-hostile dark pattern cookie banners they can come up with? No, website operators hate that they have to either stop spamming thousands of tracker scripts or put up a banner.

They found out that they can offload blame on the EU instead and so have chosen to make the web as annoying as possible.

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anonzzzies 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, that's more the point; in discussions with clients I very often get asked how far we can go without any consent. Most companies want all the privacy ignoring stuff and they don't want to tell their users about it.

	▲	microgpt 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Realistically you won't be caught analyzing server-side logs of things the client is doing anyway, even if you don't follow GDPR rules with those logs. But they want Google Analytics, right?

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dgellow 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of them don’t care and just integrate whatever is the most common cookie banner widget because their legal team asked them to