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Hopefully it works out better then the GDPR, which was good in theory, but created a whole set of new issues in practice.
GDPR is fantastic and a big win for the consumer. It was so successful in fact, that it started to spread and other countries created similar laws.
It's good, but that cookie banner is just bad... Though it's not clear to me if it's bad and not following the regulation or bad and following the regulation. It's definitely not following the spirit as so many of those cookie banners are deep messes of hierarchical settings which any sane person would not waste time on...
Legal cookie banners need to make consent as easy as nonconsent.
So, if "Accept All" is a button, "Deny All" also needs to be a button.
Also, you cannot refuse service to someone who refuses Cookies, unless they're necessary to the functioning of the service.
Without these principles, it wouldn't be consent. You can't force someone to give consent.
You also do not need a Cookie banner, if:
Google got the shit fined out of them for not doing this
The GDPR is one of the most important laws the EU ever created and the issues you talk about are probably cookie banners, that's such a increadably tiny issue in a small part of a huge and hugely important law that this comment is nothing but fucking silly!