[algas]

Yeah. Cookies qua cookies are at best something obvious and measurable, but don't necessarily correlate with the company doing anything nefarious with your information. What's worse, it has always been the client's choice to keep cookies. You can, e.g., browse in a private tab on Chrome and they'll get automatically deleted.

The fact that cookies are A) only loosely correlated with undesired behavior and B) already optional makes it absurd that every site I visit should waste 10 seconds of my time with a banner asking me to consent to their use of cookies. Especially because the only way for them to remember that preference is... to give you a cookie!

Fortunately Brave has an option to automatically skip those banners, which works on most sites.