[deanhills]

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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That's exactly what makes me unhappy.  People just going with the flow, and through that, without the intention probably to do so, create a herd mentality.  You don't question whether anything is really necessary to do, you just do it.  The result with just doing whatever comes your way, like clicking on a cross, you just make those guys more powerful, so they in the end dictate to you how you should run your Website, or behave on the Internet.  It just chips away the freedom of moving unrestricted on the Internet, little bit by little bit.  So much so that people who don't even live in Europe feel they have to follow EEC media rules.  Why? And why aren't the questioning those rules?