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... and almost none of them need to exist. Websites already have permission to do tracking essential for the site work. No banner needed.

But the only way they get to collect prying metrics, do unnecessary analysis of them and sell on the tracking results to enrich themselves, is with your consent. So they'll hound you night and day for that consent, and use every trick in the book to get it.

This study highlights the cost that website owners push onto society in pursuit of their own personal enrichment.

> Exemptions from cookie banners for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using analytics, tracking user interactions on their websites, and managing basic advertising are imperative to mitigate unnecessary economic and productivity losses.

Uh no, how about the opposite. How about outlawing analytics, tracking user interactions and managing basic advertising... and therefore the cookie banners don't need to appear either, because privacy is mandated by law, rather than being something you can opt out of if suitably harrassed.