Apparently, it’s mandatory in the EU now that websites have an advanced cookie consent banner, i.e. with the options for the user to choose exactly which cookies are set. Shouldn’t this be part of Discourse core and support all the Discourse supported tools like Google Analytics etc. in order to make a standard installation in the EU legal from scratch?
Good question. Maybe they wait for Brexit to happen? Then again, same goes for amazon.de. But it was a recent ruling of the highest European court:
And Reuters already has implemented it.
Edit: I don’t know whether this is true for other European countries, but there’s a flourishing cease and desist letter writing industry in Germany - that’s what makes the matter so unpleasant.