But the websites are still putting up banners in my way, and they never remember what I consent to anyway, they just ask every time.
They didn't do this before the regulation. It doesn't much matter whether a website could do better, they simply aren't going to do better unless forced to.
> A website could choose to honor that setting and don't track you without ever showing you a cookie banner. But most don't.
Exactly! Either fix the regulation to say they can't make UX worse or throw it away.
Yes, because they just tracked you and you didn't have a choice and didn't even know that they were tracking you probably.
You don't seem to understand what GDPR does. Very simply, it says: "Hey, if you run a website and want to store cookies in your visitors browsers that helps you track them, you need to ask them first if that's ok".
There are multiple paths websites could take:
1) Don't set tracking cookies -> No need to ask the visitor for consent
2) Honor "do not track" headers sent by browsers -> Only need to ask visitor for consent if the browser didn't set "do not track" header
3) Ask the visitors, but do it in a nice way that doesn't disrupt the whole browsing experience -> some examples are given in the blog post
There are a lot of browser extension that hide or click reject cookies for you, so you don't need to see 99% of all cookie banners. Have you tried using some of them?
They didn't do this before the regulation. It doesn't much matter whether a website could do better, they simply aren't going to do better unless forced to.
> A website could choose to honor that setting and don't track you without ever showing you a cookie banner. But most don't.
Exactly! Either fix the regulation to say they can't make UX worse or throw it away.