As a person who doesn’t have to deal with this, why is this so bad exactly?
(And furthermore why are you still drinking out of plastic?)
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It's not, it's just dumb people overdosing on US propaganda.
The GDPR is making Big Tech angry so the EU must be doing something right there.
Cookie banners are just malicious compliance: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law
(ChatControl is an abomination though and I hope it never goes through.)