[mzajc]

Unless disabling cookies means treating all cookies as session cookies (meaning you can still be followed within a session), this has the fun side effect of breaking pretty much every CAPTCHA firewall like Anubis, Cloudflare Turnstile, and any other that relies on cookies.

Unfortunately this means you have to view a lot of the web through archive.today or web.archive.org - I would know because I have uMatrix configured this way.

[frollogaston]

Session cookies for non-whitelisted sites is a nice balance between usability and privacy.

Session cookies for all sites would be fine if passkeys weren't like "We support passkeys. Do you want to use a passkey? Press ok again to use your passkey. Do you consent to using your passkey? Now please authenticate yourself to use the passkey... √ Thank you for using passkeys. Press ok to continue."

[qurren]

Honestly I've found that it's often the local businesses that shoot themselves in the foot more by this.

I disable cookies for Amazon because I need to login; if a local business wants me to buy from them directly they need to:

1. Not give me a CAPTCHA or cloudflare shit

2. Give me free shipping and a lower price than Amazon minus 5% cashback that I would get on Amazon

3. No registration needed to check out

and I'll buy from the local website. It's really not a high bar, they need to learn to not shoot themselves in the foot.

As for the news websites -- bleh. If they want me to read it, make it easy to read. As in, I click into it, show me the content. If I get a popup, banner, anything that covers up the content, I bounce. I'll get the news from social media anyway. If they'd rather I get it from their news website, they need to learn to not make me bounce.

I'm not opposed to advertising if they want to get revenue from that, but it should not track me, not cover up content, and not load megabytes of JavaScript to do it.