> The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies.

What, you mean if they want to do business in the EU, sell their products in the EU and process the data of EU citizens?

> Every time I click on a stupid cookie notice I fondly think of the EU.

That’s just scumbag malpractice on purpose.

Number one, such tracking consent should have been a web standard and set in the browser itself (like Do Not Track), not stupid per-site banners that are designed to get you to accept everything just to make them fuck off. We shouldn’t even need extensions etc. to get rid of them, it’s like the problem was solved at the wrong level and in the worst way possible.

Secondly, everyone responsible for the state of those banners should have been fined greatly. I only say fined because claiming that some people should be in jail over coercing millions of people to give up their data to trackers would apparently be unreasonable.