I think this shows how much we need better democratic institutions like a full functioning parliament and (in my view) direct democracy on EU level.

If the councils make stupid ideas, citizen could start an initiative or at least the MEP can annoy the commission.

Supporting noyb.eu since years for their great work.

> Using completely far-fetched figures, it argues that without cookie banners, all online advertising would come to a standstill.

If only. Unfortunately even without any tracking at all they could still bombard you with their psychological warfare machine.

Cookies are not the meta for tracking. Fingerprinting [1] is highly effective across IPs and across incognito/browser profiles.

The only browsers I've found that defeat it on desktop are Mullvad and Tor Browser as well as most antidetect browsers.

Mullvad (essentially Tor Browser without the Tor network built in for better usability on the web) and Tor browser are blocked from using or signing up for most websites because of IP reputation and the privacy protections which make them look like VMs and bots.

Antidetect browsers are used by marketers, web scrapers, social media account managers, ecom, among other low lifes. These use different browser profiles to avoid fingerprinting by isolating and randomizimg identifiers while constantly patching(use a few week old version and you'll see it gets detected as something to be blocked, not detected as in correlated cross profile, just blocked) to avoid detection. I'd like to see a privacy focused antidetect browser, but perhaps open source makes it easier for the fingerprinters to find detections.

[1] https://fingerprint.com