The cookie law is the ePrivacy Directive 2002,[1] not GDPR. And as a user, I would much rather control my privacy preferences regarding cookies from my own browser, instead of within hundreds of different implementations across websites.

We already have P3P to allow websites to declare how they want to use your information. European legislation should have focused on leveraging these existing tools and protocols to give control to the user, instead of annoying them with endless pop-ups.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...

Interesting, I did not know that. Where is that covered? I want to read more.

GDPR is all about user data AFAIK. If I understand it correctly it avoided the trap that is to single out specific implementations.

Also it seems either I or someone else misread the context. I'm in the broader GDPR context while someone else seems to be in the older cookie law context.