And yet it's been 7 years and the banners still exist.

Because the industry doesn't want to give up on tracking and siphoning user data.

7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that. Do you think another 7 years will be more effective?

Alternatively, the EU could change the laws. Or enforce the existing ones.

> 7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that.

Funnily how "7 years of complaining" was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners (often in direct violation of GDPR).

> Or enforce the existing ones.

That's definitely the biggest criticism you can level at EU: they are too slow in enforcing this.

I think the tide is very slowly changing. First they started showing reject buttons https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come There's a report on the cookie banners in the works: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs... etc.

>was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=17679596

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=25457469

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=30982470

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=23090393

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=29529062

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=19381063

All of these links have comments against this sentiment.

I will admit that there's also a slowly grown understanding of where the cookie banners come from, so it's not "100% blame the EU".

This comment from one o the linked discussions sums it up well: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=29529190