How many "normies" do you know that stopped visiting websites that track them? I don't know anybody who isn't in my tech bubble who cares, and very few normies who would rather pay money than to give access to their data.
None. That doesn't mean they don't care. As I said, most people I know are annoyed by this but take these banners and tracking as a given because they don't understand enough about technology and see them everywhere. And let's be honest here, if you were to stop visiting sites that track you, you could just stop using more or less the whole internet. It's not about stopping to use these sites, it's about stopping those sites from tracking you, which almost everyone I talk to is ok with. The only people I see that defend the amount of tracking happening on the web are commenters online (here, on reddit, etc.). That leads me to believe it's mostly corporate accounts.
To the point: Not using a site is not the point of it. Insert "yet you participate in society" meme
Apple do not track alert resulted in many people saying they don't want it. And of course, had impact on Meta's business.
So if websites presented cookie banners in a neutral way without dark patterns to make Reject difficult, "normies" would reject these, I'm sure.
To the point: Not using a site is not the point of it. Insert "yet you participate in society" meme