> Really the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups and invest in a privacy-first browser.

You clearly misunderstand when they are required and how they are legally required to work, the key points (as I take them) that are often misunderstood are:

* They are not about cookies, but any persistent identifier

* If a identifier is needed for your core functionality (ads/tracking is not a core functionality) and not misused for other purposes you do not need consent

* It is required to be as easy to decline as it is to consent

* Not consenting is not allowed to degrade or gate the content

* Even if you consent to tracking/cookies you should be allowed to withdraw that consent

Do you not agree with these points?

Frankly I feel having to clear modal dialogs is like getting a lobotomy. I don’t ever want to see one. I don’t want to ever be asked “click on the traffic lights”. I don’t want to have to clear 1, 2, 3 or 4 more modals asking for my email address on a blog.

I want “respect DNT or go to jail”

GDPR normalized enshittification, turned it from something that was unambiguously evil to something that was required, virtuous even.

I could care less personally if you track me or not but if you pop up a meaningless distraction in my face there is no limit on how much I want to hurt you and blowing our your kpis and wrecking your analytics by disabling your tracking it is the least I can do. We need to resist the Google Economy that wants to divert 99% of your attention to worthless trash.