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Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year (legiscope.com)
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[–] Don_alForno 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In Europe, consent banners are mandated by an old directive from 2002,

Nope. There is no EU cookie banner law.

Lies and deception, once more.

[–] muelltonne 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah, and let's not forget that most cookie banners are straight up illegal as you can't get the informed consent of a normal user for several hundreds of tracking services with just one button click and dark patterns.