Really pleased to see this
I'm really pleased to see that they are doing this - the EU law is clearly written to require informed consent before dropping cookies on browsers, but clearly websites drop cookies on browsers anyway and the pop-up is just to tell you that they have done that, not to obtain positive consent first (as opposed to e.g. some kind of passive of implied consent).
As per other earlier comments, the current click-through warnings are utterly pointless and just seem to be done to provide a veneer of "You must have consented because we told you that we had done it."
If this causes websites to actually do what the law requires them to do and obtain positive consent before dropping cookies on browsers then that's great. If websites want to block access to people who don't consent then that's up to them, but the point is that they have to obtain positive consent first.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
