Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking.

"Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is! And this is starting to be enforced through the courts, so you're increasingly seeing the "Decline All" option right away. As it should be. https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stan...

Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better.

The problem here is the problem everywhere; we still as a world have no remotely effective way to actually punish companies-as-bad-actors on the internet or in tech generally.

None of any technical ANYTHING matters until we (meaning law and government) inflict truly meaningful consequences. Fines, breaking up companies, perhaps even jail time, etc.