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> Good, there could have been a standardized way to ask for that consent β€” but to me the way a site tries to trick you into consenting is yet another data point whether I want to be on this site.

I get really annoyed at having to care. The economics for content sites are so poor I feel bad for a lot of them.

> This is not about storing cookies or not alone, it is about consent to do so.

Yes, and regulators misjudged the incentives. Relying on each website to create the consent UI leads to a bad outcome for users.




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