[eesmith]

The analysis is pure BS.

"On average, a user visits about 100 websites per month, totaling 1,200 websites per year."

First, that is not in the cited link. The word "month" isn't even present.

There is the line 'In the US, the average internet user browses over 100 different web pages on a daily basis.", but that cites a blog post from 2007 ... which include numbers for dialup users(!)

Second, if users visit 100 new and distinct websites in one month that does not mean they visit 100 new and distinct web sites every single month. You've got DuckDuckGo and HN and Codeberg and your Mastodon instance, which you visit every day.

And once you've said to allow or disallow tracking, the web site can, you know, remember the answer for next time. Using a cookie.

[magicalhippo]

However, unless you agree to the banners, you'll see the banner each and every time you visit the site. Assuming you're not using some extension that gets around that of course.

[eesmith]

There are two issues there.

First, do you think most people mentioned in this analysis select "I Agree" or "Decline Cookies". I'm pretty sure most people select the former, in part to avoid being asked again.

Second, asking each and every time is a deliberate dark UI pattern, and if not already illegal - which I suspect it is - should be. The blame for the user time wasted selecting "Decline" every day should not be attributed to the law, but to the web site owner who want that extra bit of surveillance capitalism cash, and to the web developers who enable this practice.