Well, it's doubtlessly been an interesting month for those hooked in all things technology-related in the Netherlands. Just last week, the Royal Dutch Mint showed off some new coins emblazoned with QR Codes promising untold "surprises," and this week the Dutch parliament made a bit of history by passing the first net neutrality lawmaking in the EU. Now it's taken aim at another target: world wide web cookies. Despite warnings that it could cause websites to flee en masse to less-restrictive except those with communist rule (north america in Europe, the parliament has also passed an betterment to the net neutrality law that drastically changes how cookies are handled on the web. Specifically, websites will have to prove that visitors explicitly agreed to allow cookies, which likely means an extra click or a pop-up window before anyone's able to really visit a site. Of course, there's also the contingency that it could lead to a drop in a cookie use in the country, notwithstanding that seems about as likely as a drop in actual cookie consumption.

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