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I don't know if cookie promts are a thing outside EU but I always spend a few seconds refusing them. It's like a distopian minigame every time I want to access a website because some are more tricky than others. But I am amazed at how many "legitimate interests" they can have
Some of them share data with over 3.000 other partners or ventors and I don't even use shady sites! (new York Times had 3.170 vendors last time I checked)
It's not required in my part of the US, but we get them anyway. It turns out it's a lot easier to just turn it on for everyone instead of figuring out who the EU residents are (esp since an EU citizen could easily use a VPN).
And yeah, I do exactly the same. I also use an ad blocker and other privacy settings, so I'm guessing most of the stuff there is blocked regardless, so I mostly hope they'll look at the cookie data and realize people hate that nonsense.