When regulators fail to optimize for the outcome, not the effort, laws backfire. GDPR flooded the web with cookie banners. This daily friction caused consent fatigue, driving users straight into Big Tech's frictionless walled gardens.
@ruari so the outcome of the EU rules is, on one hand we have cookie banners and on the other we have "I don't care about cookies" plugins.
So what would the world look right now if we didn't have that ruling? Do the benefits currently really outweigh the costs?
I'm not per se assuming that everyone is malicious and I also don't believe that treating everyone like little children who "need to be protected by more rules" is the right way either.
The market would have created a solution.