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Totally what came up for me too, like what the heck.  Who made this rule, and why do we have to jump on the bandwagon?  Like why if a panel of somebodies of EEC made up some rules for Europe do those who are not from Europe need to follow those rules?  Also why isn't any one questioning all of these rules. Why be sheep?

That's what I like about @Pacific Spirit.  He wouldn't accept the GDPR ruling about VPS owners needing to provide picture ID with addresses etc. He took this "rule" to court (in the Netherlands) and said that that was in violation of his clients' privacy.  AND he is from Europe. AND the court ruled in his favour. So why aren't other people doing the same thing, instead of saying, Oh we now have a new rule, we have to make changes to our Websites.  We need a plugin.

Personally I can't stand those cookie pop-ups.  They're in my way most of the time.

I guess cookies are mainly used to log stuff that can help tune that website to your needs, an example being google shows Ads which are more related to your recent searches on stuff like Ebay/Amazon, and in some instances, Google is even listening to your microphone and trying to understand what you recently talked about to give you ads related to that subject(I am not even kidding, this actually happened with me), and most companies feel that their customers should know about this but that cookie message has become such a norm that most people just click the X button and be done with it lmao
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