[wongarsu]

You don't need consent for functional cookies that are necessary for the website to work. Anything you are accepting or declining in a cookie popup shouldn't affect the user experience in any major way.

I know a lot of people who reflexively reject all cookies, and the internet indeed does keep working for them.

[arendtio]

For those who are interested. Things that can change are:

- ads are personalized (aka more relevant/powerful to make you want things).

- The experience can become slower when accepting all cookies due to the overhead generated by extensive tracking

In essence, there should be no relevant reason for users to accept cookies. Even accepting and rejecting should be equally easy. The only problem is that companies clearly prioritize pushing users to accept cookies because the cookies are valuable to them.