VM (Vicky) BrasseurSep 22, 2025

Let's be clear here: The law is NOT to blame for cookie banners.

The blame lies with companies that would rather inconvenience you with a banner than respect your privacy by not collecting (and selling) your data..

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/?

Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

POLITICO
Show threadlj·rkSep 22, 2025

@vmbrasseur oof, that's bad reporting by politico here. As you say, the law didn't demand this crap. And the 'proposal' they cite...

> to drop consent banners for cookies collecting data “for technically necessary functions”

... that's already there. You don't need a cookie banner for that. Ugh

Show threadDavey

@ljrk @vmbrasseur

Politico is comically bad at this kind of thing.

Sep 22, 2025 at 7:37amWeb