[pptr]

The mere existence of regulation is part of the problem. Without precise understanding of the law, you don't know if your use cases are fine/excempted. The safe default assumption is that your site is not compliant with regulations until you can prove otherwise, involving a lawyer.

[Yaa101]

That regulation would not have come into existence if there were no privacy problems caused by the ones that have to comply to the regulations

[pptr]

Right, and that regulation has a cost. I hope it's worth it.

[cbeach]

There were certainly problems.

But the GDPR and ePrivacy directives don't protect us from nefarious cross-site tracking cookies.

Prior to the GDPR, websites just tracked us.

Now they track us AND present an irritating warning that users have learnt to mindlessly "accept"

[mnewme]

This is simply not true.