[Macha]

You probably have had sites that either had no such options, or stuffed some tracking into required/legitimate interest/essential sections and tracked you anyway however.

[ncallaway]

I probably have.

And I haven't paid close attention, as I'm an American citizen and couldn't pursue sites over such a blatant violation of the law.

Were I a European citizen, however, I would watch extremely closely and absolutely be bringing complaints against sites that did that.