The alternative being to bend over and grab our ankles with both hands the moment the scummy ad-tech industry requests our data?
Sorry mate, the GDPR is there for a bloody good reason; and legit companies obey the law.
Yes because of the GDPR, there aren’t still two trillion dollar+ market cap ad Tech companies.
But at least we have cookie banners everywhere.
The GDPR is theater. An effective privacy law would have prevented data collection in the first place. Data collected will be abused, and a cute little banner won't change this.