alt Hacker NewsBut taking the time to investigate that, get it approved by legal, etc. all takes longer than just slapping a cookie banner component on it.
This is why people complain about the unclear and bureaucratic nature of these laws, it leads to an over complicated investigation and compliance isn't always simple - meaning the safest option is to comply at the highest level and degrade the user experience.
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I much rather companies be scared into complying and have some spare banners than companies having grey area free-for-alls with my data.
Eh, it took me all of 2 days to strip all the unnecessary cookies out of our product, and convince management to leave out the giant unnecessary cookie banner.
The sites plastering those everywhere are doing a malicious compliance, pure and simple
But it is not. the text of that legislation is very clear.