Cookie law is one of the stupidest laws that EU forced. I had to install additional rules to adblocker to get rid of this nonsense and it still doesn't catch everything and keeps irritating me... I don't care, damn it! http://nocookielaw.com/

Is it truly?

The law is pretty simple: If you track users, or transmit information to third parties which could track the user, you have to get the user to opt-in.

The original intention was to get rid of Facebook’s shadow profiles, which it did – in the EU, websites don’t embed Facebook’s like button anymore, but have a two-click solution, where you have to click it, then it’s actually loaded, then you can like.

That alone is worth such a law.

It is not worth it. I would really want a good way to protect myself as an Internet user from this law that the EU is enforcing on me. To protect myself not from Facebook, not from Google, but from the EU. It also gets in my way as a web developer. The law is not simple. 100 words sentences of law jargon are not simple. Many, many pages of such sentences is the opposite of simple. To be honest I have never really understood the law and I don't think I ever will. Even keeping track of it is far from simple.

But according to this website: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm Cookies clearly exempt from consent according to the EU advisory body on data protection- WP29pdf include: (...) third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.

So, I think what you say about Facebook is not true.

> for logged‑in members of a social network.

I was talking about non-logged in users. The shadow profiles.

> The law is not simple. 100 words sentences of law jargon are not simple. Many, many pages of such sentences is the opposite of simple.

The German version of the law is just as simple to read as any newspaper or book you read in German high school, so at least I haven't had an issue before.