[lb0]

> I find it problematic that the university requires any cookie consent whatsoever in the first place.

Totally right, and also

> If someone else is okay with the data transfer, he can opt-in if he wants to. I should not carry the burden of having to opt-out of it.

so much this. If something is spiraling out of hands it is the cookie usage, which is 99% AD tracking.

The current law is badly implemented, or lead to bad implementation. Now almost every site asking your for their necessary or "helping" cookies, most often using dark patterns to trick you into just accepting all - and because you get this stupid cookie prompt on every page now, everybody just wants to click it away as fast as possible, which misses the target totally, too :(

Still, its not data protection spiraling out of hand, but that basically every site, even ones where I don't login to or want to drop off any other data, but just fetch a small information, wants to set cookies is ridiculous. We all should have never accepted that, but too late?