[usr1106]

Only 128 partners?

A site about aviation incidents and accidents has introduced a new cookie banner recently. There it says 1512 partners.

Actually I wondered whether there can be so many surveillance capitalists. Wasn't it so that Google and Facebook absolutely dominate that shitty market? Is there a living for so many others?

[Smoosh]

I remember when micropayments for sites or individual pages were deemed too expensive to implement due to the cost and complexity of splitting access into tiny pieces and tracking them. Yet here we are with sites sharing their users with hundreds of other companies.

[usr1106]

Because being spied on is for "free", but micro payment is still payment. Add least on the surface.

If you think that consumers pay all the ad serving, with >99% of the resources wasted because users ignore the ads, in the end we are paying more at the moment and we have the annoyance.

[Cheer2171]

"Partners" includes anyone who buys that data, not just other data brokers.