[47282847]

> Until GDPR web professionals fought tooth and nail to keep modal dialogs out of web applications, mostly successfully.

Like the comment above rightfully states, GDPR does not require banners at all. It’s up to the site to decide if they want to (ab)use collected data for other purposes than what is required. If it was the goal of “web professionals” to avoid modals like you say, it could perfectly well be achieved also today. Also, don’t you remember all the popup dialogs and modal ads and “in your face subscribe to our newsletter before you can even see our content” that sites had, well before GDPR? So many that browsers had to basically disable popups? So much for “tooth and nail”.

None of the sites I’ve ever built require any cookie banners. Never have. I would refuse to build something that does, because the use cases that require them are unethical, unnecessary, and a cancer for society. Very simple.

[PaulHoule]

What about AWSALB? Google Analytics? I'll agree I don't like the "third-party" aspect of GA but users of the most rudimentary product of that sort want to know how many unique visitors that got in various time intervals.

[XCSme]

Unique visitor counts are definitely useful, and you dont need Google Analytics just for that. A self-hosted solution [0] can give you the basic numbers and trends you need without using third-party tracking.

[0] https://www.uxwizz.com

[47282847]

There are many things I would want to know but don’t press people on, out of respect. I have seen many industries and not one really needs these numbers, beyond what you can already deduce from GDPR-compliant logs. I know people and businesses can act greedily, but don’t let us collectively fool ourselves into thinking it was an inherent necessity of commerce. It is our decision whether we want to live in and contribute to a humane society.