EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners! (opens in new tab)

For years, users and many companies have been complaining about cookie banners. Even though this understandable frustration is mostly caused by misleading dark patterns used by the industry, these banners have become the symbol of what is perceived as excessive EU regulation. As part of the ‘Digital Omnibus’, the European Commission now finally wanted to get rid of cookie banners and replace them with an automated signal. However, Google and some of the very EU Member States that are actually...