[yakcyll]

The title originally claimed 575M hours spent every year by Europeans on cookie banners. That's 12 seconds on average a day per person. Hardly anything to complain about.

[oasisaimlessly]

An alternative interpretation:

"575M hours spent every year by Europeans" = 850 average human lifespans per year

Cookie banners in Europe have an effect vaguely comparable to "wasting" 850 human lives per year.

[kalaksi]

You can use similar big scary numbers and words for a lot of much worse and more time consuming things.