I have yet to see an actual part of that policy which requires a cookie banner though. Seems more to me that it's a combination of (a) websites allowing all kind of fcked up use cases of cookies on their site (most sites do not even need cookies for real) and (b) not respecting http headers that ask to not be tracked... They much rather have a very confusing popup that kinda forces you to accept all :) How convenient.

Just like websites also give zero fcks about accept-language header... sure do geoip lookup, so much easier... not

I’m certain it’s often just the California “literally everything is known to cause cancer” problem.

It’s simplest just to put the bullshit everywhere and the dipshit bureaucrats will leave everyone alone.

I have always seen the cookie banner as a sort of punishment to the public for daring to have demanded better treatment.

“Oh you want consent involved in this interaction? Then we’ll annoy you about it constantly instead of respecting the intent of the regulation.”