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by pessimizer 2124 days ago
If you add an opt-in step to anything people don't want, it will kill that thing. If people were opting into getting an actual cookie rather than a tracker for advertisers to understand and target their behavior, you'd have 100% uptake.

That people won't opt into something that they didn't ask for and isn't primarily for their benefit is unsurprising.