The EU law does not require these multiple pages of legalese. Not even a little bit.
In fact it says "it shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent".
So you shouldn't attribute complexity to the EU law, when the law actually insists on simplicity.
It's a myth that the GDPR requires complex forms, or even just banners. One that website operators (mainly 3rd party advertisers and trackers who provide the banners/popups to sites) would like you to believe.
A genuine GDPR-compliant banner/popup is much simpler.
In fact you can make a GDPR-compliant site without any banner/popup/form at all, while still using cookies, logins, shopping carts and analytics etc. You just need to do it in a privacy-respecting way, which isn't hard.
The complexity is website operators attempt to half-comply and half-violate the law, frustrate and arm-twist users into something most people would not agree to if it was easy to decline. The obnoxious complexity is deliberate, to annoy and frustrate you so that you give in to the "easy" option they very much want you to "choose".
In fact it says "it shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent".
So you shouldn't attribute complexity to the EU law, when the law actually insists on simplicity.
It's a myth that the GDPR requires complex forms, or even just banners. One that website operators (mainly 3rd party advertisers and trackers who provide the banners/popups to sites) would like you to believe.
A genuine GDPR-compliant banner/popup is much simpler.
In fact you can make a GDPR-compliant site without any banner/popup/form at all, while still using cookies, logins, shopping carts and analytics etc. You just need to do it in a privacy-respecting way, which isn't hard.
The complexity is website operators attempt to half-comply and half-violate the law, frustrate and arm-twist users into something most people would not agree to if it was easy to decline. The obnoxious complexity is deliberate, to annoy and frustrate you so that you give in to the "easy" option they very much want you to "choose".