>This is a jaw-drop moment for me every single time I observe someone else using the web and quickly clicking "accept"

There's a mismatch between the velocity at which people visit sites and the time it takes to navigate the cookie particulars of each site.

And, we can dismiss this as people being uninformed or lazy but the reality it is that's actually not so unreasonable. Cookies are in some ways near the bottom of the list where privacy is concerned, given everything else from breaches to search dossiers to device finger-printing to mobile device location-tracking to the ubiquity of cameras in the real world, and on and on.

The idea that we're clawing back privacy in any meaningful sense by blocking a few cookies here and there is kind of quaint.