[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I mean, you can write a website that doesn't require any of that. social media links for authentication (if the website requires authentication) are strictly necessary.

Analytics and optimization are things the eu is trying to prevent, so of course you get a popup.

[kbutler]

It is possible, yes. It just hampers much of what people expect modern websites to do (though it hinders abuse, as well, which is good!).

But even GitHub, who proudly declared they had removed all non-essential cookies https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ added them back https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582/files and now if you click either "Manage cookies" or "Do not share my personal information" at the bottom of the page, you'll see they have the common "Required", "Analytics", "Social Media", "Advertising" categories.

(Bummed that they have the Advertising category.)

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

GitHub is owned by Microsoft, the company that's putting ads on your start menu, I'm not sure why people are expecting anything less. Whatever they had in terms of culture before acquisition is not the same afterward, even if it changed gradually.