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@wjmaggos @Sarahp I saw that too. I think the TechCrunch author needs to go back to basic arithmetic

@mkoek @dalias @codinghorror frankly, yes. The law hasn’t changed anything of substance. Companies still use the same analytics tools. But now users are constantly nagged at, and companies have increased costs and slower go to market times as they need to faff with these things.

Perfect example of regulation that is completely misguided, and is a nuisance to almost everyone, bar a few people on Mastodon. Wrong approach.

@mkoek @dalias @codinghorror tell that to the thousands of startups desperately trying to balance with a billion other things they're trying to do. That's just not a practical suggestion when the third party analytics are much faster to set up, better understood, and generally superior too than some self-hosted thing cobbled together.

As mentioned, the reality we are in today with cookie popups everywhere was 100% predictable and the regulation was thus poorly considered.

@dalias @codinghorror that’s all very nice in theory, but it was always going to end up with what we have, due to the way this regulation was brought in. With having to incessantly click Accept on every single website out there. Only a small fraction of people care to do anything else. Thus reducing the experience for almost everyone and annoying millions every day. The cookies are not just used for ads, but every analytics tool out there. Key to running sites.