I theory cookies are great. They put the choice on the user to be remembered as the same person by either sending the cookie or not. The problem is that cookies

I theory cookies are great. They put the choice on the user to be remembered as the same person by either sending the cookie or not. The problem is that cookies were designed intransparently leading to them being percieved as non-consensual tracking rather than as the consensual mechanism that puts the user in control they could have been. These solution feel like a makeshift stopgap workaround when I think the actual solution involves creating a way to put the user back in active control if and how a site remembers you.