It's basically a form of malicious compliance.

Malicious compliance is still compliance. Somebody being told "Please watch the pressure gauge." and then staring at it as it goes outside of safe regions is doing exactly what they were asked to do. This is blatant noncompliance with the thinnest veneer of respectability.

Then you can lobby to change the law because the users-electors are annoyed and it's not your company fault every website is doing it.