Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

No popup is required, just every lobotomized idiot copies what the big players do....

Oh ma dey have popups. We need dem too! Haha, we happy!

Actually, it's because marketing departments rely heavily on tracking cookies and pixels to be their job, as their job is measured on things like conversations and understanding how effective their ad spend is.

The regulations came along, but nobody told marketing how to do their job without the cookies, so every business site keeps doing the same thing they were doing, but with a cookie banner that is hopefully obtrusive enough that users just click through it.

No it's because I'll get fined by some bureaucrat who has never run a business in his life if I don't put a pointless popup on my stupid-simple shopify store.

Is it an option for your simple store to not collect data about subjects without their consent? Seems like an easy win.

Your choice to use frameworks subsidized by surveillance capitalism doesn't need to preclude my ability to agree to participate does it?

Maybe a handy notification when I visit your store asking if I agree to participate would be a happy compromise?

It's important to point out that it's actually not at all about cookies. It's tracking by using information stored on the user's device in general that needs to have consent.

You could use localStorage for the purposes of tracking and it still needs to have a popup/banner.

An authentication cookie does not need a cookie banner, but if you issue lots of network requests for tracking and monitor server logs, that does now need a cookie banner.

If you don't store anything, but use fingerprinting, that is not covered by the law but could be covered by GDPR afaiu