Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

The whole law should have been forcing sites to not ignore DoNotTrack bworser settings. It's a prime example of the EU being utterly useless because they don't understand the underlying issue and then choose a "solution" that's as much in your face as possible but doesn't change anything about the original problem. It's the whole plastic straw thing in digital form.

> It's a prime example of the EU being utterly useless

That's a bold statement to claim that the largest trade block in the world is utterly useless, but I'll bite it.

What was the underlying issue they didn't understand?

That companies will go with malicious compliance 9999 times out of 10,000. So ensuring compliance would require immense enforcement efforts from the get-go that still haven't really surfaced.