[nottorp]

Well let's ask HN:

How many of us click accept on those annoying cookie dialogs or have an extension do it for them?

And how many take the time to find the reject button and/or install appropriate extensions that will do the rejection?

I'm in the second category but I'm sure the first one is the majority, mostly because they just don't care.

[danaris]

"I have resigned myself to everything insisting on taking as much of my personal data as it can possibly manage, and have already been worn down too much by so many years of trying to navigate it in ways that protect myself, so now I just sadly click accept so that I can get on with my life" is not the same as "I support the right of companies of all types and sizes to take all of my data to do whatever they want with."

[nottorp]

I personally know one person that simply doesn't care. They're not all resigned, I think.

[screamingninja]

Those pesky popups keep reappearing on each visit until you hit accept. Once you accept, they never bother you again. Not sure there is a way around besides aggressive anti-tracking extensions / DNS servers etc.

[93po]

Use the annoyances block lists on ublock origin, gets rid of them on most any bigger site. Annoyances isn't on by default bc mainstream users would get too frustrated with the occasional breakage it may cause.

[gattilorenz]

I don’t, not anymore. I use the annoyance lists for uBlock origin, click on “deny” on smaller sites, use the AdNauseam browser extension on every desktop browser to poison the wells of advertisers, switched to iOS from Android, installed LuLu on macOS and deny programs internet access if they don’t need it…

I was never particularly privacy conscious. I was “normal”. Now that my fucking GPU driver spies on me, I think I’m rightfully becoming slowly paranoid about it.

[JohnFen]

Since I browse without Javascript enabled by default, I almost never see those cookie dialogs. I don't allow persistent cookies regardless.