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.

No, the problem is 100% the law, because it was written in a way that allows this type of malicious compliance.

Laws need to be written well to achieve good outcomes. If the law allows for malicious compliance, it is a badly written law.

The sites are just trying to maximize profit, as anyone could predict. So write better laws.

I agree with you

But we see how some companies cough cough Apple cough throw massive hissy fits and tries to find the most minuscule opening on the law

They're legally bound to what's best for their shareholders, that includes being absolute weasel scum and abuse the law to maximize profits. At least that seems to be how it's interpreted by every big public company.

> They're legally bound to what's best for their shareholders

People always say this, but as far as I can tell it's not true.

In 1919, Michigan, USA court ruled shareholders matter more than employees or customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.