You make a fair point -- it's popular to take the same tack with web servers and ad blocking (a server makes content publicly available -- users can decide whic

You make a fair point -- it's popular to take the same tack with web servers and ad blocking (a server makes content publicly available -- users can decide which parts to view). Not a stretch to apply the same logic both ways -- just because a server offers a file to you, doesn't mean you are forced to store and give the file back on demand. If this view were more widely adopted, it would maybe pressure browser vendors into being more transparent with users on cookie management and proactively ask them how they want to handle them.