Of course some websites had to do it in an even dumber way than the law asks for. Like slashdot: http://i.imgur.com/5Fp0nmo.png
This is what greets the French every time slashdot decides to forget you agreed to let them put cookies on your computer and you need to click continue before you can get to the actual website.
The law actually made it worse for the people it's supposed to protect (those who might refuse cookies for privacy?) because those warning then will stick around like glue if they can't give you a cookie to remember you accepted their existence.
[0] Storing it server-side, per IP address, is obviously impractical.
It would have been nice if this was permitted to be violated only by GUIs. Ask about the first-time *nix experiences before the GUI-embracing era and one of the few things they were noticing was the continuous text-spitting. For instance, that was happening on boot and OS loading sequence (and still happens, now only being hidden by default with splash-screens), a lot of reporting about all the things that were performed successfully. It's funny in this regard seeing Unix' Rule of Silence being respected more... outside Unix, where is just common sense, with no need to be formulated as rule.
The boot-up splash screen hardly even counts as "GUI" anyway.