The cookie law stems from a EU privacy directive, based on data protection rules that require citizens to consent to having their data processed.

Although the messages have become significantly less irritating over time, with websites simply providing a small message at the bottom or top of a website rather than a yes or no pop-up form, we could still probably do without them. The notices are something of a box-ticking exercise and have probably done little to actually empower web users when it comes to privacy - as well as being a burden for website owners.

Is this the end of cookie notices?

But with the UK now set to leave the EU, are those cookie messages about to disappear? That, at least, would surely be a Brexit outcome we could all get behind.