I think the general attitude here is pretty bad and I'm disgusted with the replies. I hope the hell they do get sued.
The reason that the law exists is that people have abused the cookie functionality terribly to track people all over the Internet using every possible loophole that they can. Now the price is being paid through not very good legislation.
You wrote functionality that tracks people and now you're whinging when people are given their privacy back? Forget it - I have no sympathy.
Regarding legitimate use, you click accept and the problem goes away.
With respect to analytics, stop being cheap and lazy and do it from your logs.
The reason that the law exists is that people have abused the cookie functionality terribly to track people all over the Internet using every possible loophole that they can. Now the price is being paid through not very good legislation.
You wrote functionality that tracks people and now you're whinging when people are given their privacy back? Forget it - I have no sympathy.
Regarding legitimate use, you click accept and the problem goes away.
With respect to analytics, stop being cheap and lazy and do it from your logs.