Yeah, I agree with you. If people don’t like that a site uses cookies, then don’t visit it and maybe it will naturally go out of business. They shouldn’t be for

Yeah, I agree with you. If people don’t like that a site uses cookies, then don’t visit it and maybe it will naturally go out of business. They shouldn’t be forced to still provide content. Or not. Personally I have no problem with cookies. Maybe they will just lose traffic from a small fraction of HN users instead of going out of business. It’s kind of like paywalls. I get annoyed whenever I visit a news website and a paywall pops up, but I just leave the site unless I’m interested in subscribing. If enough people leave instead of paying (i.e. providing something of value in exchange for accessing interesting content), then the publication goes out of business.