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.

Or we could stop the charade of that cookie laws prevents tracking and get rid of all the stupid banners. All the beacons are firing in the back(server to server) now and all session data is passed on the inbound URL and stored. Browsers banning third party beacons, cookies laws, etc don't do anything. You can't even tell your being tracked.