Cookie banners are not mandated by law, disclosure of and consent to tracking and capturing private user data and its sharing to third parties is. Cookie banners are just the easiest UX pattern to slap on to an existing website, and lends itself to dark patterns so users blindly click "accept all". There's multiple browser extensions that exist that will automatically opt you out and you never have to see those cookie banners again.
Cookie banners are not mandated by law, disclosure of and consent to tracking and capturing private user data and its sharing to third parties is. Cookie banners are just the easiest UX pattern to slap on to an existing website, and lends itself to dark patterns so users blindly click "accept all". There's multiple browser extensions that exist that will automatically opt you out and you never have to see those cookie banners again.
The topic was the "worldwide reach" of the laws, not the cookies themselves.
Thank god for ublock. Worth it, just to get rid of that nonsense. Whatever apparatchik came up with that, should be tried for crimes against humanity.
HN does not have cookie banner? Should they? Is HN subject to the laws of EU?