Annoyances in Europe: The consequences of a totally bodged EU cookies law.

Websites of influential companies including the BBC now have punishments for exercising your rights.

What you as a user want is this:

1. Disable (default. it's an opt-in).
2. Go to a settings page (with data usage implications for each choice and externally managed spot checks so they are kept honest).
3. Disable (operator should not be allowed to change the content you can access).

Would this damage the analytics space? Yep. Probably. Who cares? We need ethics, not profits, to guide our rights. We should all be pleased that ethical legislation makes it harder to profit from unethical activity.

(Shit. Another blog post down the Facebook toilet). I'll post this to my tech blog where the government steal my ideas 😊).