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> Our lawyers told us otherwise.

Probably because they're not particularly technical people, and also because of the asymmetric incentives for them personally.

Tell someone to put a cookie banner up when they didn't need to: no consequences.

Tell someone not to put up a cookie banner up when they did need to: potentially big consequences for them and their career.




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