John GruberWelcome to the EU web:
Eugen Rochko@gruber I feel like the problem is the tracking, rather than them needing to disclose it. Nobody is forcing them to include third party analytics!
Paweł Orzech
Ken Kinder 
@pawel @Gargron @gruber I think you’re missing the point. It’s a bad user experience. Surely we all agree that these screens are a bad user experience.
GDPR doesn’t ban tracking, it just requires consent. Maybe it’s an unintended consequence, but it’s an entirely predictable one.
Is it better than being tracked? Maybe, maybe not, but that’s another discussion.
Matunos@bouncing @pawel @Gargron @gruber they choose to make the UX so obnoxious to encourage you to click "allow all". they could present a privacy-compliant UX with a non-intrusive banner to allow more tracking in exchange for better site functionality, but they know most of their tracking doesn't add any value to the user.
@bouncing @pawel @Gargron @gruber because they are intent on tracking and monetizing us by sharing data. as others pointed out there are ways of doing analytics that don't violate GDPR or require user consent. the sites choose not to use them and to make it obnoxious to limit data sharing. privacy protection and user consent is not the bad guy
@matunos @pawel @Gargron @gruber Let me put it in clearer terms. By some hypotheses, there may be an infinite number of universes. And yet, despite there being an infinite number of universes and possible outcomes, in no hypothetical universe is there one where GDPR results in anything other than irksome cookie popups.
It’s a paradox physicists have been flummoxed by for some time. 🤔