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The blame is at least partly on the economic models of the modern web. Tracking increases the payout of ads, ads are the main source of revenue... cookie popups allow this all to continue.

Without a fundamental reshaping of the web economy, this isn't likely to change.




> Without a fundamental reshaping of the web economy

That's actually quite easy: leave any webpage with cookie banners as fast as possible. Or at least disable everything.


That's exactly what makes it hard: you need everybody to do the same (ok, a majority, but that's not as dramatic :)).


Of course that's true too :)

The problem is that most people blame 'the EU'.




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