Well, that's why the GDPR tried to get rid of them. Of course people now put up GDPR barriers ;-)

It's really hard to legislate against something that some people really want to do :-/

I think we can both agree on that. People have reacted somewhat negatively to my original comment, but I suspect cookie banners have done more harm than good on balance. It’s one of those things where the spirit of the movement got lost.

We were discussing something in a similar vein the other day regarding a security form for an enterprise contract and my reoccurring response was “officially or actually?” There tends to be a big gap between official compliance and what was originally desired.

Many years ago I worked with a mega mega corp that required a complex form with every change request, but they still ran my script that escalated my database permissions because they ran it as root.