I think it's pretty clear that whomever wrote the cookie consent law didn't know the first thing about cookies. Though I'm not completely discounting the possibility that ad companies are deliberately obtuse.
Why law makers decided people should be warned about the websites storing data client-side with users having full control over the content and who it gets shared with, is something I will never quite understand. Though I do recognise that some of the blame lies with most user-agents storing these cookies indefinitely and sharing them without question, by default, to this day.
> Though I'm not completely discounting the possibility that ad companies are deliberately obtuse.
They are definitely being deliberately obtuse. Nothing in the relevant legislation requires anything like the party of dark patterns we see in many sites, in fact many of the consent forms are not conformant with the legislation at all anyway.
Please read my other comment in this thread - the vast majority of cookie consent modals aren’t actually compliant with the GDPR. The problem is that there’s been zero enforcement.
It really doesn't matter. It wasn't written to be enforced at the protocol level and that was its biggest mistake. The amount of life it has extracted from me is worth far more than the abuse of the data.
Why law makers decided people should be warned about the websites storing data client-side with users having full control over the content and who it gets shared with, is something I will never quite understand. Though I do recognise that some of the blame lies with most user-agents storing these cookies indefinitely and sharing them without question, by default, to this day.