The European Union's proposed "Digital Omnibus" legislation aims to streamline cookie consent by requiring websites to offer one-click rejection of all cookies, matching the ease of acceptance and potentially saving users 198 million hours annually. Privacy experts remain skeptical that the changes will meaningfully improve user experience, warning that the new rules may simply replace existing problems with alternative issues while third-party data tracking continues.
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The European Union's proposed "Digital Omnibus" legislation aims to streamline cookie consent by requiring websites to offer one-click rejection of all cookies, matching the ease of acceptance and potentially saving users 198 million hours annually. Privacy experts remain skeptical that the changes will meaningfully improve user experience, warning that the new rules may simply replace existing problems with alternative issues while third-party data tracking continues.