Did they know what they were unleashing when they brought in GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)?

When you visit almost any site these days, up comes a pop-up asking you to accept cookies – small bits of code that tailor the site to you and may track you. It’s annoying and takes so much fun out of the internet. What’s the point of visiting the site if you can’t access it without cookies?

Up until now, I thought I was covered. I just had an information bar across the bottom, which you could click to clear away.

But now, every site must demand that you agree to cookies. Since hardly anything works on the internet without cookies – bar a few old legacy html site from the 90s – this does seem a bit pointless.

I’ve had to join the madness and put a pop-up on the site, for whenever a new visitor arrives. I apologise.

If a visitor doesn’t accept, then no videos will play – the whole point of this site! It would be good to show the videos in the blurred background to entice them in, but all I can show is an almost blank page.

And so it goes. Oh, and I have to pay for the privilege of making my site’s user experience worse! Kind of like a stealth tax?