Seems like it's either covert surveillance (before the EU cookie thing), or manipulated consent surveillance.
I personally improved my browsing experience with the Consent-o-matic addon, which knows some of these cookie modals, and fills them for me according to my preset (which is to deny all cookies).
Also, people not caring should not be a baseline. People are ignorant about the vast majority of things going on, and yet they are much better off if those are taken care of by people who actually give a damn - as evidenced by a good deal of regulations that keep lead out of paint, antibiotics out of chicken, and so on.
> People are ignorant about the vast majority of things going on, and yet they are much better off if those are taken care of by people who actually give a damn
No disagreement there, I just think the GDPR rules that led to ubiquitous cookie consent dialogs were indicative of policymaking by people who didn't fit that category. It should have been easy to predict this outcome from that policy.
I personally improved my browsing experience with the Consent-o-matic addon, which knows some of these cookie modals, and fills them for me according to my preset (which is to deny all cookies).
Also, people not caring should not be a baseline. People are ignorant about the vast majority of things going on, and yet they are much better off if those are taken care of by people who actually give a damn - as evidenced by a good deal of regulations that keep lead out of paint, antibiotics out of chicken, and so on.