occasionally, clicking through yet another half-arsed GDPR-mandated cookie management screen, i find myself thinking "the GDPR has buggered up the web"
then i catch myself.
no, it hasn't. the way companies have opted to respond to the GDPR is what's buggered up the web. they could have been nice and unobtrusive about it, but no, they decided that *every user in the EU* should suffer their protests at not being able to stow thousands of fragments of random shite on a whim all over their vict- sorry, users' computers.
@thamesynne I think one or two news sites have opted to build a completely JavaScript-free version of their site for EU users and it's such a delight to browse, everything's so fast
@thamesynne indeed, it's kind of obvious at that point
@noiob i've seen at least one, and yes, that's a delightful solution to the problem... but it does invite the obvious question ;-)