From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Retrograde  wrote:   
   > Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/24/2021235/europes   
   cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-wants-to-fix-it?utm_s   
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   >   
   > In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of   
   > its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with   
   > pop-ups requesting consent to cookies.   
      
   FWIW, those cookie banners are an example of "Malicious Compliance":   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance   
      
   The 2009 law did not require "cookie banners" in any way shape or form.   
      
   The cookie banners were nothing more than "compliance, in the most   
   irritating way possible" to try to get most users to pressure the   
   lawmakers to change the law.   
      
   Looks like it took a while, but that "get users to pressure the   
   lawmakers" part has finally worked.   
      
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