[rightbyte]

The cookie nagging kinda worked for a while because EU bureaucrats bad. But I believe their was a general shift in realizing Google et al. spy on you where it backfired in the long term.

Users were way more naive at the time of cookie banners being introduced. Internet were still not a real IRL thing.

[jacquesm]

I think if you confronted your average user with what these companies collect in data behind the scenes they would be astounded. I've seen a lot of this stuff professionally and it is quite amazing that any of this is legal at all. The profiles that these companies have on private individuals are at a level that the intelligence services likely can not match, either in quantity or in quality.

[rightbyte]

To Joe Doe's defense it took way to long for me to realize Google stalked me on the web. Embarrassingly long. "Internet people" told me but I thought they were crackpots.

[ilyt]

And now due to law user can directly click to see list of dozen, sometimes over hundred companies the "accept" click gives access to their tracking