alt Hacker NewsIf they fully anticipated this then surely they could've fully anticipated how annoying and useless cookie banners are?
There is nothing stopping a website from using cookies regardless of the banner. If they are outside EU jurisdiction then there won't be any consequences either.
The legislators were and are dumb. They have wasted an enormous amount of collective time for no benefit. Big corporations continued doing what they were doing and nefarious third parties could still track you.
> surely they could've fully anticipated how annoying and useless cookie banners are
They did. The laws were airtight in this regard. They simply lost -- whether through a last minute "tweak" or undermined enforcement mechanism I do not know, but I do know that the current state of affairs was fully anticipated and headed off at the point where I reviewed the proposal. Your vitriol is bass ackwards -- the lesson is to strengthen the walls between corporations and the legislative process and support enforcement mechanisms, because those were the places where the process failed. Not the intelligence of legislators. Otherwise you will keep losing to the corporations, and you will deserve to.