I am a highly technical internet user, yet I still now always click accept on cookie pop-ups. It's just too much work/wasted time to navigate through those pop-ups that hide the "no" option.

I might have clicked Accept on other things too because of this, good thing that the browser permission pop-ups have a different style otherwise I would have also enabled push notifications on several websites.

A less technical relative of mine is getting spammed on her mobile phone with push notifications, as she probably unwillingly gave permissions to multiple websites that she visited and showed a permission request pop-up.

Exactly. They just train users to always click "Accept".

I agree. The intention might have been good - but the outcome is the opposite.

Agree. You could literally say anything in the cookie message, and people would just happily click and along with it. I've used to tapping yes and going next. Not exactly what they intended when they came up with this incredibly ill-conceived idea. Good intention, poor implementation, which is the state privacy and security regulation has been in for far too long.

Just saw that you're the CTO of Cloudflare. If I launch the initiative, do you think your company could endorse it? Or become a sponsor for a prominent backlink?

I was writing as a European in Europe rather than Cloudflare's CTO.

I thought that sometimes these personalities may overlap. But nevermind.