[ruthmarx]

> Nope, including EU big business sites as well.

Maybe some, but generally businesses are not breaking the law willy nilly like that.

> There are also EU big business sites which illegally claim the legitimate interest basis for advertising and tracking purposes of data processing which have already been ruled by the courts as not acceptable justifications for the legitimate interest basis.

And did the EU follow up?

> The EU is trying to protect the data of the people in the EU.

The problem is it's unenforceable nonsense and has led to this foolish cookie popup situation.

If they had limited it to entities with a presence in the EU, it would have worked better. At the moment it applies to some malicious Chinese teenager who blatantly wants to collect and sell the data of Europeans who visit his self-hosted low-traffic blog.

> The truly compliant ones aren't.

Yeah, they really are. It's still something you have to interact with to make it go away.

If your response says something if companies don't track they won't need a popup, then you have missed the point.