New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
Before the discussion descends into the usual &quot;that&#x27;s stupid and will kill all tech startups&quot; vs. &quot;that&#x27;s right because all cookies are evil incarnate&quot;, I&#x27;ll say again:<p>This is a perfect example of the kind of legal processes we have now.<p>The EU and Germany in particular have decades of privacy regulation and core values behind them. These core values won&#x27;t change. Regulation for the past decades has ignored that tech routinely violates these values, and it&#x27;s catching up now. Rules won&#x27;t be as dramatic as in the past, but will differ widely from the us.<p>In this context, it&#x27;s legally important to account for entrepreneurial freedom (guaranteed by the constitution), but if there&#x27;s an overriding reason to protect consumers, then it is entirely irrelevant how long companies have been doing this, how many do this and in what other countries they do it.<p>To sum up, the law sometimes bites late, but it bites hard, and arguments surrounding competitiveness, business culture or internet culture are legally completely irrelevant.