It does give you a (perhaps false?) sense of having some level of control over what is stored where and how much tracking happens. Also, as an unintended side-e

It does give you a (perhaps false?) sense of having some level of control over what is stored where and how much tracking happens. Also, as an unintended side-effect, it helped boost my productivity a bit, as when I open some link and the page keeps twisting my arm to accept all the cookies, I just close the whole tab and go do something more useful instead. And lots of sites, especially news and media related, do this - I skip like 1 in 5 pages because of badly implemented or hostile privacy dialogs.