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> The law isn't that bad actually

I've clicked 3 cookie banners today alone and its not even 2pm yet.

How many cookie banners have I clicked in my life so far? How many cookie banners can I expect to click over the remaining 40-50 years of my life?

The law is objectively bad.



>The law is objectively bad.

No, the websites you visit are probably bad.

Which cookies did you have to accept/reject? What do they do? Why do the websites believe they must ask you to accept them?

Also, the law allow browsers to automatically accept/reject the cookies on your behalf (actually, the law does not care about which specific technology the websites use to collect and process personal data). You, as a user, can choose a browser/extension that rejects these cookies by default, except the necessary ones. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/istilldontcar... and I haven't see a single cookie banner for years on desktop and mobile. I don't like cookies and I like the law.




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