I see this as biting us in the butt sometime. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
What's more annoying is playing the "NoScript allow roulette" game of trying to figure out which domains/scripts you have to allow for some site feature to work.
This is why I don't bother with cookie monitoring at all, and why I plug my ears and say "la la la" and pretend that everything will be alright. I really don't want to spend the time figuring out how to make my bank work.
I suppose when the government gets in the game, either through direct tracking or just making laws requiring tracking companies to keep particular data for particular lengths of time, then it will be a civil liberties issue and I'll care more. But it will probably also be illegal by then to circumvent tracking.
But that's just crazy. That would be like the government demanding that ISPs keep credit card information on their customers.
I see this as biting us in the butt sometime. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
What's more annoying is playing the "NoScript allow roulette" game of trying to figure out which domains/scripts you have to allow for some site feature to work.