Weird question to ask through radio, over.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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Cookie questions unfortunately are required by law in the EU so don’t meet Gruber’s own definition.
That said the EU needs to force browser makers to respect a set of more granular “do not tracks” settings and then just read the “necessary/functional/settings/marketing” acceptance from there.
Cookie banners are not required if all you use are actually necessary cookies instead of sharing data with 395 of your partners.
But functional cookies also need approval, no?
As far as I know (and I'm not 100 % sure), no. You don't even need to inform users that you use functional cookies. Most likely because these work for the person using your website, not against them (persisting the session, settings, and so on).
Enabling an Annoyances list in ublock origin prevents some of these from dicking up, thankfully.
I do hate those things. Even the BBC uses a dickover on their site...
tumblr has had an incredibly annoying one since forever, the login wall. It shows up while scrolling down about half a screen to tell you you can't browse any more of it without an account. There are greasemonkey scripts to remove it, but every once in a while tumblr changes the way it's displaying that shit, so the scripts have to be updated.
(Yeah, I know, tumblr. Don't judge, I used to download a lot of Sims custom content, and a lot of sim modders like tumblr, for a reason I still don't fully understand)
I sense that all started with the stupid GDPR popups. If so, then sincere apologies from Europe.
I feel like the newsletter signups came first