Misleading headline: It's productivity loss caused by non-essential data collection.
The EU does not mandate banners, it's the businesses choosing to bully their customers into accepting all tracking and profiling.
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The EU does not mandate banners, it's the businesses choosing to bully their customers into accepting all tracking and profiling.
It's stunning the number of people on HN (a tech news site!) who don't realise there is simply no requirement for "cookie banners" UNLESS you are using those cookies to track me or personally identify me (advertisers take a bow)..... In which case you need to ask my explicit permission to do so.
And so you should.