> The proliferation of such alerts was largely triggered by two different regulations in Europe: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping data privacy law enacted in the European Union in May 2018; and the ePrivacy Directive, which was first passed in 2002 and then updated in 2009. They, and the cookie alerts that resulted, have plenty of good intentions. But they’re ineffectual.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cook...
What you probably meant is the user data banners/popups you have to click on that are new since GDPR. They are not cookie banners, they are a different thing, calling them cookie banners gives people the wrong impression.
The fact that you mix these two makes it look like you don't understand what you are talking about here. Especially since you talk as if this was the only thing GDPR changed. The cookie law is stupid, but GDPR is not.
Cookie banners has nothing to do with GDPR.
> I own a small business and I've gone through the process GDPR compliance. It is not too bad but there is a reason why there are upteen number of GDPR compliance consulting firms and checklist makers out there.
The reason is that GDPR compliance gets more expensive the more technical debt you have. For big enough companies with bad engineering practices it can costs hundreds of millions of dollars. For a small business with a straightforward product they likely are all but compliant without even trying.
> What should have happened is a complete solution to privacy in the browser instead of playing cat and mouse games with businesses that will find loop holes.
GDPR has nothing to do with browsers, it has to do with forcing companies to ask for and track data they keep on you no matter where it comes from. It applies to apps, to hiring interviews, to storing transaction data when you buy groceries etc. What you are talking about is a completely different issue.