The EU doesn't require banners.

Companies could stop selling and storing your data. They could only use cookies when absolutely essential. They could use lots of kinds of UX.

This is the equivalent of businesses who put a big visible "20% the state says we have to give our employees healthcare" fee on their bill to throw a hissy fit and hope customers get angry at the government for protecting them instead of the business for exploiting them.

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nonethewiser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Banners exist to eliminate EU regulatory risk. You can try to convince people they aren’t required but its not going to remove any banners.

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Am4TIfIsER0ppos an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The EU didn't have to do anything. The User Agent can already handle everything from denying cookies to blocking requests for certain resources.

	▲	wizzwizz4 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The user agent can refuse to store cookies, but it can't do much against supercookies (cookie-like features not knowingly implemented by the user agent programmers) or fingerprinting: you need something like legislation to curb practices like that.